I remember when this movie was still in the early stages, there was a lot of crazy talk about Bruce being bitten by radioactive dogs and shit like that. Nice to see that someone seems to have thrown a comic in front of the producers face at some point.
For your reading convenience, allow me to summarize all the posts that will appear in this article:
1. Wow, this is really cool/neat/excellent/unique! This kid is a credit to geeks/nerds/hackers/allofus for coming up with this! Wouldn't it be really cool if you could XXXXXXXXXXX, and get it to do YYYYYYYYYYY?
2. God, Slashdotted already. I know this has been said before, but Slashdot really ought to take some responsibility for the stories they post. Perhaps some form of cache/prior warning system/mirror to make sure the page is available, and the site owners don't get stuck with dead servers/massive bandwidth bills?
3. WTF? Is this what passes for news nowadays on Slashdot? Come on, this is total vaporware until I have a finished product in my hands! I can't believe crap like this gets posted, and my article about CompanyX abuses/government concerns/link that has been beaten to death on 100 other blogs/great new vaporware technology is totally ignored by the editors.
4. Oh great. Now all this kid has to look forward to is being bought out by Palm/Microsoft/Apple/Microsoft again and having his idea exploited for millions of dollars while he gets next to nothing. Or better yet, wait until Xerox/Microsoft/Apple/HP/Microsoft again decides they want to get this technology for nothing, and sues him for patent infringement somehow! Those bastard corporations don't care about anything but their bottom lines/profits/iron grip on their marketplaces/bullying the little guy after all!
4. This article is a joke. Therefore I will make this joke post/troll/blatant flame in an attempt to gain cheap karma/make lame humor attempt/piss off everyone.
- Coordinated color schemes, heavy on earth tones and pastels. White is out as a background color this season, and those BSD colors have got to go.
- New moderation options: +1 Sweet, +1 Thoughtful, +1 Caring, and -1 You Don't Smile Like That To Me Anymore.
- A new built-in calendaring system with an auto-reminder app, featuring reminders for Valentines Day, Our First Date, and That Time You Said I Love You For No Reason.
- Moderation will now include an "Express Your Feelings" textbox, where the moderator must explain and justify their moderation in 250 or more words before they are counted. All Moderations will still be subject to Meta-Moderation, which will itself include a "We Need to Talk" textbox for similar purpose.
Now if only they would agree to remove the motion sensor that rings a bell every time someone walks in or out of the store..."
Yeah, cause there's absolutely no reason whatsoever that an employee at a relatively small, yet cluttered, business might need to know when someone enters an exits the store.
Nope, they have absolutely no right to know that you've entered their store, even if they might be the only person on duty at the time, and currently helping a customer in the back look for some obscure AV connector. Since, you know, no possible way a two-man team could distract the employee while simultaneously stealing thousands of dollars worth of merchandise right out the front door.
Jeez people, I like my right to privacy too, but let's not go off the fucking deep end here.
They really don't have much choice. It's either comply, or bankrupt everyone associated with the site piling up legal bills against some of the richest companies in America.
If I'm understanding this correctly, the problem the companies seem to be having is that sites like this FatWallet are getting the holiday sale prices in advance of the so-called "Black Friday" (Friday after Thanksgiving). Presumably the retailers are not only worried about losing sales in the sort term to people who will wait for the sale prices, but they're worried about competitors finding out this information and undercutting them on the items in question.
Of course this begs the question "How does this information get out in the first place", the answer to which is of course "Greedy employees giving their friends/relatives a heads up". Easier to wave some lawyerin papers at a few web sites than to take care of the problem internally I'd guess.
Murdock: What have you got here?
Soldier: Well sir, so far all we can say is that these lights are blinking out of sequence. Aside from that this machine appears to serve no purpose whatsoever.
Murdock: Well...make them blink in sequence then!
* There's a huge amount of visibility -- everyone saw the movie and knows it made shitloads of money.
That's true, but most of them don't know who the hell Stan Lee is, or why he should be entitled to profits from the movie. And in those people who do realize it, a lot of them are just going to think, "Huh, comic guys fighting over money", and turn the page.
* Lee is a revered and sympathetic personality -- nobody wants to see him get screwed over.
To comic geeks like you and me maybe, but again, the vast majority of people neither know nor care about Stan Lee in any significant way.
This is like pretty much every other "outrage" story that pops up like this. A fuss is raised that shows up as a minor blip on most people's radar, heated words are exchanged between those close to the situation, someone gets screwed and/or paid, and by this time next week nobody even remembers what happened, because there's something else to worry about. Business as usual.
I assume he's referreing to the popularity of Star Wars owing a debt to the great sci-fi that came before it (i.e. Dune the novel), though I would think a comment like this would make more sense if it referred to Kurosawa's "Hidden Fortress".
Not only did you not get that joke, it skipped the country on you and will spend the rest of it's days sipping Mai-Tai's on a Columbia beaches free from extradition.
The "lego guy" is actually an indication that the game is Marvel v. Capcom 2, which is hands down one of the best 2D fighting games ever. Do yourself a favor and play it a few times.
This is great and all that the bill was held up, but Jesse Helms? The man has 9 toes in the grave, and will be lucky if he lives long enough to retire at the end of this year.
Slashdot Mirror
Too bad it's dying.
Goddamn I wish there was a -1:Obvious mod.
OMG FLASH = TEH SUCK!!11@! IT SI BAD AN D ALL THE KEWL PEEPS HATES IT YES MY PRESIOUS@!!! LAMERZ DONT KNOW HOW 2 UZE IT AND IT IS THE SUXOR!!!1!!!!
Christ Almighty, people, get over it.
Do you people have any control over how fucking lame you sound, or is it just a reactionary thing?
I remember when this movie was still in the early stages, there was a lot of crazy talk about Bruce being bitten by radioactive dogs and shit like that. Nice to see that someone seems to have thrown a comic in front of the producers face at some point.
Possible, but certainly poorer for Nintendo's absence. Sega's too.
Combat.
For your reading convenience, allow me to summarize all the posts that will appear in this article:
1. Wow, this is really cool/neat/excellent/unique! This kid is a credit to geeks/nerds/hackers/allofus for coming up with this! Wouldn't it be really cool if you could XXXXXXXXXXX, and get it to do YYYYYYYYYYY?
2. God, Slashdotted already. I know this has been said before, but Slashdot really ought to take some responsibility for the stories they post. Perhaps some form of cache/prior warning system/mirror to make sure the page is available, and the site owners don't get stuck with dead servers/massive bandwidth bills?
3. WTF? Is this what passes for news nowadays on Slashdot? Come on, this is total vaporware until I have a finished product in my hands! I can't believe crap like this gets posted, and my article about CompanyX abuses/government concerns/link that has been beaten to death on 100 other blogs/great new vaporware technology is totally ignored by the editors.
4. Oh great. Now all this kid has to look forward to is being bought out by Palm/Microsoft/Apple/Microsoft again and having his idea exploited for millions of dollars while he gets next to nothing. Or better yet, wait until Xerox/Microsoft/Apple/HP/Microsoft again decides they want to get this technology for nothing, and sues him for patent infringement somehow! Those bastard corporations don't care about anything but their bottom lines/profits/iron grip on their marketplaces/bullying the little guy after all!
4. This article is a joke. Therefore I will make this joke post/troll/blatant flame in an attempt to gain cheap karma/make lame humor attempt/piss off everyone.
A list of upcoming features:
- Coordinated color schemes, heavy on earth tones and pastels. White is out as a background color this season, and those BSD colors have got to go.
- New moderation options: +1 Sweet, +1 Thoughtful, +1 Caring, and -1 You Don't Smile Like That To Me Anymore.
- A new built-in calendaring system with an auto-reminder app, featuring reminders for Valentines Day, Our First Date, and That Time You Said I Love You For No Reason.
- Moderation will now include an "Express Your Feelings" textbox, where the moderator must explain and justify their moderation in 250 or more words before they are counted. All Moderations will still be subject to Meta-Moderation, which will itself include a "We Need to Talk" textbox for similar purpose.
What are you talking about? What other color would socks be?
Now if only they would agree to remove the motion sensor that rings a bell every time someone walks in or out of the store..."
Yeah, cause there's absolutely no reason whatsoever that an employee at a relatively small, yet cluttered, business might need to know when someone enters an exits the store.
Nope, they have absolutely no right to know that you've entered their store, even if they might be the only person on duty at the time, and currently helping a customer in the back look for some obscure AV connector. Since, you know, no possible way a two-man team could distract the employee while simultaneously stealing thousands of dollars worth of merchandise right out the front door.
Jeez people, I like my right to privacy too, but let's not go off the fucking deep end here.
The difference with Office, of course, is that Microsoft actually has a brain in it's head when it comes to marketing and selling their product.
They really don't have much choice. It's either comply, or bankrupt everyone associated with the site piling up legal bills against some of the richest companies in America.
If I'm understanding this correctly, the problem the companies seem to be having is that sites like this FatWallet are getting the holiday sale prices in advance of the so-called "Black Friday" (Friday after Thanksgiving). Presumably the retailers are not only worried about losing sales in the sort term to people who will wait for the sale prices, but they're worried about competitors finding out this information and undercutting them on the items in question.
Of course this begs the question "How does this information get out in the first place", the answer to which is of course "Greedy employees giving their friends/relatives a heads up". Easier to wave some lawyerin papers at a few web sites than to take care of the problem internally I'd guess.
So here's your chance to ask questions to the star of Iron Chef USA, Miss Congeniality and TJ Hooker!
And oh yeah, that other show.
Come on guys, you're missing what was perhaps Shatner's greatest role ever: Cmdr. Buck Murdock in Airplane 2.
Murdock: What have you got here?
Soldier: Well sir, so far all we can say is that these lights are blinking out of sequence. Aside from that this machine appears to serve no purpose whatsoever.
Murdock: Well...make them blink in sequence then!
Not in America, Commie swine!
Would you feel comfortable with a radioactive power source inside your laptop or cellphone?
Sure, as long as it's not that yellow radiation.
* There's a huge amount of visibility -- everyone saw the movie and knows it made shitloads of money.
That's true, but most of them don't know who the hell Stan Lee is, or why he should be entitled to profits from the movie. And in those people who do realize it, a lot of them are just going to think, "Huh, comic guys fighting over money", and turn the page.
* Lee is a revered and sympathetic personality -- nobody wants to see him get screwed over.
To comic geeks like you and me maybe, but again, the vast majority of people neither know nor care about Stan Lee in any significant way.
This is like pretty much every other "outrage" story that pops up like this. A fuss is raised that shows up as a minor blip on most people's radar, heated words are exchanged between those close to the situation, someone gets screwed and/or paid, and by this time next week nobody even remembers what happened, because there's something else to worry about. Business as usual.
I assume he's referreing to the popularity of Star Wars owing a debt to the great sci-fi that came before it (i.e. Dune the novel), though I would think a comment like this would make more sense if it referred to Kurosawa's "Hidden Fortress".
He should recieve bonus points for working the word "socialist" into it IMO.
Not only did you not get that joke, it skipped the country on you and will spend the rest of it's days sipping Mai-Tai's on a Columbia beaches free from extradition.
...consumers are deciding they don't really need or want tablet PC's. Just a thought.
The "lego guy" is actually an indication that the game is Marvel v. Capcom 2, which is hands down one of the best 2D fighting games ever. Do yourself a favor and play it a few times.
This is great and all that the bill was held up, but Jesse Helms? The man has 9 toes in the grave, and will be lucky if he lives long enough to retire at the end of this year.
And they say odd numbered Trek films suck...