A Dilbert comic has come true? I thought ALL of them were true. I was talking to a co-worker the other day about a peculiar habit of a manager and then about 15 minutes later we are looking at the most recent Dilbert and it was making fun of the exact behavior of the manager.
It seems like the bullet list pros are more related to caffeine than antioxidants. Of course I also like the irony of an article pointing out that coffee has antioxidants and that a risk of consumption is the possibility of elevating blood pressure. The number one killer in America is heart disease, not cancer.
I think the big difference is that Sega made mistakes and got out to focus on what they did well. Sega is still alive and probably a lot more profitable. Microsoft (if the OS chronicles give us any clues) will make the mistakes and try to stay in the game just because they are Microsoft. Only with the consoles they don't enjoy even the thought of a monopoly.
Of the current generation I like Xbox best. But of the next generation I don't think I will be so willing to even give Xbox 360 a fair shake.
7. XBox 360 Vista- This version will totally rip-off all other 3rd Generation consoles, and is the whole reason they have the tiered release plan anyway...
Isn't the 3rd generation console something like SNES and Sega Genesis?
I also think M$ is being stupid (business as usual?) with the different versions thing. I can understand if there is one type that is a media center, one is a home theater, one is an internet appliance type of thing where the different versions have different extras, but the way they are going about it is stupid. It would have been slightly more intelligent to not tell anyone that version 1 is stripped and then version 2 has some of the main features. But you still have pissed consumers that aren't going to trust you anymore after the 2nd iteration comes out. And then the 3rd one comes out, and then the 4th one, 5th... If all flavors can't play all the games then the whole thing is a bad idea. Maybe Sony needs to rethink their idea of waiting to release the PS3 and just release it at the same time with all the advertised features at launch.
My sister-in-law just got back from a trip to DC to attend a rally. She tried to talk to Senators and Representatives from her state that she had faxed information to earlier. She didn't get much of a reception from any of them. Most said to come back another time and one of them a staffer asked a bunch of questions and remained skeptical. The one that did listen was sponsoring a bill on the very cause she was supporting. I heard about it from my wife and thought "big surprise". She faxed information, but I'm sure there are all kinds of crackpots with faxes doing the same and it takes a long time for staffers to filter through the crap. IF they had gotten around to the information that was faxed, they might have scheduled an appointment or given a phone interview. Otherwise they aren't going to listen to you unless you're a lobbyist. I'm not crazy about lobbyists, but in many ways they have become a sad necessity. Video game sex and violence has become a hot button topic, and parents that use video games as babysitters so they can stay at the office have the money to pay lobbyists. And I'm sure you realize by now that politicians don't always look at scientifically derived facts. That said I hope my sister-in-law doesn't exactly succeed because she doesn't look at the facts either.
Kind of reminds me of playing dope wars. I don't want to do drugs because Officer Hardass keeps getting better and better at shooting, back alley surgeons steal your kidneys, and loan sharks throw you out windows if you don't pay up.
And we all know that beating up defenceless women in GTA has kept people from beating on their girlfriends, wives, and duaghters in real life... wait I guess you can't draw the same conclusion their.
You said girlfriends, slashdotters would have to have girlfriends to beat them. You made a funny!
As I said in reply to another post, check my sig. It's a joke, ha ha. I don't know why I got a score 5 interesting. Maybe a score 5 funny but not interesting. If I meant that in all seriousness I would have followed with something to back up my statement. I think that making a statement that geeks are pretty much universally-pacifist is silly. While I try to be a good person and I don't get violent, I wouldn't necessarily call myself a pacifist. On the other hand, I would call myself a geek (by practice some might call me a pacifist geek), and I am a geek that is interested in the hard sciences more than the computer sciences. This is some pretty serious hard science. It is very relevent to geekdom. If there are going to be updates on meteor showers and astronomical phenomenon, this definately belongs here.
Ultimately my exerience on Slashdot tells me that geeks just don't get jokes. Humor is obviously of enough importance that funny is a positive karma mod score, but getting 3 responses to a flipant, not-so-subtle joke that is mistaken for seriousness is really funny. Actually that experience is the motivation for my current sig. The fact that my sig says "it's a joke" and the responses keep saying "I don't get it"...Slashdot keeps getting better all the time.
Tell me about robots, new types of air-conditioner and spacecraft but keep this weapons crap out of here - we geeks are pretty much pacifists and don't care about this stuff.
Yeah! tell me about Quake, and Doom, and Half Life, and Counter Strike, and Halo, and Unreal...
While I may not fall in line with either you or my sibling posts as far as thoughts on ethanol being good or bad, but I think that many are missing some of the far reaching ramifications. I think that the main thing that is good about ethanol is that it is renewable. Petroleum is not renewable. Even if it isn't a permanent solution it may be a very necessary step toward the real solution. Growing crops for ethanol production will have a positive effect on air pollution and we aren't going to have to worry about oil wells going dry. Sure it may not be perfect, but it isn't worth dismissing like my sibling posts seem to favor.
I reserve my ultimate judgement until I see how it feels to use, how durable it is, and how much it'll set me back. But that thing is sexy. I'd like the look of that with conventional keys.
Wish I had mod points. Excellent point. Even more to the consumer end of this crap: who said that purchasing a product is a contract to bring it back if someone says "my bad"? There was an exchange of goods and money. I don't know when anyone decided that that is a contract that the seller can come back and say return the goods. Maybe the old saying "buyer beware" should read "seller beware". Reminds me of the very unpolitically correct term indian giver.
Leaked copies of a book doesn't make a difference in book sales. Of those 15 copies, what odds do you have of someone actually reading the whole thing (remember the thing is mainly targeted at young readers and likely multiple readers per copy) in those 4 days? It's not anything like the movie analogy you gave because a movie is a fixed amount of time and seeing it early does make a difference. You see a movie and invest a whole 2-3 hours and you're done. Four days early would be a huge difference for the theaters that get stiffed. If you start selling books a couple days early, you run out a couple days early and people go elsewhere. It happens all the time: Item A goes on sale at store B and sells out. People start saying "They have it over at store C" rinse, lather, repeat. I say sell it when you get it, pay more for faster shipping, get bigger profits if you can manage to keep the thing on your shelves. Power to the smart people, not just to the ones playing in the artificially level playing field.
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One of my favorite lines from Pirates of the Caribbean...
"I take it you've never been to Singapore." -Captain Jack Sparrow.
A Dilbert comic has come true? I thought ALL of them were true. I was talking to a co-worker the other day about a peculiar habit of a manager and then about 15 minutes later we are looking at the most recent Dilbert and it was making fun of the exact behavior of the manager.
If memory serves I heard we were contemporaries in a college biology lecture about 7 years ago.
Concrete Shoes!
So it's your fault I couldn't read the post! thanks for "inconviencing" everyone!
I don't disagree with you, but I wouldn't say antioxidants are a new fad. People have been pushing them for at least a decade.
It seems like the bullet list pros are more related to caffeine than antioxidants. Of course I also like the irony of an article pointing out that coffee has antioxidants and that a risk of consumption is the possibility of elevating blood pressure. The number one killer in America is heart disease, not cancer.
Don't forget the hemlock. It's also natural, so it's good for you. Just ask Socrates.
I think the big difference is that Sega made mistakes and got out to focus on what they did well. Sega is still alive and probably a lot more profitable. Microsoft (if the OS chronicles give us any clues) will make the mistakes and try to stay in the game just because they are Microsoft. Only with the consoles they don't enjoy even the thought of a monopoly.
Of the current generation I like Xbox best. But of the next generation I don't think I will be so willing to even give Xbox 360 a fair shake.
Isn't the 3rd generation console something like SNES and Sega Genesis?
I also think M$ is being stupid (business as usual?) with the different versions thing. I can understand if there is one type that is a media center, one is a home theater, one is an internet appliance type of thing where the different versions have different extras, but the way they are going about it is stupid. It would have been slightly more intelligent to not tell anyone that version 1 is stripped and then version 2 has some of the main features. But you still have pissed consumers that aren't going to trust you anymore after the 2nd iteration comes out. And then the 3rd one comes out, and then the 4th one, 5th... If all flavors can't play all the games then the whole thing is a bad idea. Maybe Sony needs to rethink their idea of waiting to release the PS3 and just release it at the same time with all the advertised features at launch.
1. The stock symbols show how Google has the monopoly and is bullying poor defenseless Microsoft.
2. The soothing use of color. I believe more when it looks soothing.
3. The headlines are hysterical. What was it, "King Fahd is laid to"?
My sister-in-law just got back from a trip to DC to attend a rally. She tried to talk to Senators and Representatives from her state that she had faxed information to earlier. She didn't get much of a reception from any of them. Most said to come back another time and one of them a staffer asked a bunch of questions and remained skeptical. The one that did listen was sponsoring a bill on the very cause she was supporting. I heard about it from my wife and thought "big surprise". She faxed information, but I'm sure there are all kinds of crackpots with faxes doing the same and it takes a long time for staffers to filter through the crap. IF they had gotten around to the information that was faxed, they might have scheduled an appointment or given a phone interview. Otherwise they aren't going to listen to you unless you're a lobbyist. I'm not crazy about lobbyists, but in many ways they have become a sad necessity. Video game sex and violence has become a hot button topic, and parents that use video games as babysitters so they can stay at the office have the money to pay lobbyists. And I'm sure you realize by now that politicians don't always look at scientifically derived facts. That said I hope my sister-in-law doesn't exactly succeed because she doesn't look at the facts either.
Kind of reminds me of playing dope wars. I don't want to do drugs because Officer Hardass keeps getting better and better at shooting, back alley surgeons steal your kidneys, and loan sharks throw you out windows if you don't pay up.
You said girlfriends, slashdotters would have to have girlfriends to beat them. You made a funny!
Butt-head: Hey Beavis, that guy said ignorant Americans and then said we're going to vote the Terminator into the White House. Huh, Huh
Beavis: Heh Heh, Irony's cool, Heh Heh.
Ultimately my exerience on Slashdot tells me that geeks just don't get jokes. Humor is obviously of enough importance that funny is a positive karma mod score, but getting 3 responses to a flipant, not-so-subtle joke that is mistaken for seriousness is really funny. Actually that experience is the motivation for my current sig. The fact that my sig says "it's a joke" and the responses keep saying "I don't get it" ...Slashdot keeps getting better all the time.
Check my sig BS.
Yeah! tell me about Quake, and Doom, and Half Life, and Counter Strike, and Halo, and Unreal...
That's all part of the plan. After the tinfoil hats are off, we can use our mind control devices on them. Sounds like a brilliant idea to me.
While I may not fall in line with either you or my sibling posts as far as thoughts on ethanol being good or bad, but I think that many are missing some of the far reaching ramifications. I think that the main thing that is good about ethanol is that it is renewable. Petroleum is not renewable. Even if it isn't a permanent solution it may be a very necessary step toward the real solution. Growing crops for ethanol production will have a positive effect on air pollution and we aren't going to have to worry about oil wells going dry. Sure it may not be perfect, but it isn't worth dismissing like my sibling posts seem to favor.
I reserve my ultimate judgement until I see how it feels to use, how durable it is, and how much it'll set me back. But that thing is sexy. I'd like the look of that with conventional keys.
Swimming pools.
Happy Hacking keyboard! I saw that and I was impressed, but then again I'm running a 900Mhz Duron, Yeah baby!!!
Wish I had mod points. Excellent point. Even more to the consumer end of this crap: who said that purchasing a product is a contract to bring it back if someone says "my bad"? There was an exchange of goods and money. I don't know when anyone decided that that is a contract that the seller can come back and say return the goods. Maybe the old saying "buyer beware" should read "seller beware". Reminds me of the very unpolitically correct term indian giver.
Leaked copies of a book doesn't make a difference in book sales. Of those 15 copies, what odds do you have of someone actually reading the whole thing (remember the thing is mainly targeted at young readers and likely multiple readers per copy) in those 4 days? It's not anything like the movie analogy you gave because a movie is a fixed amount of time and seeing it early does make a difference. You see a movie and invest a whole 2-3 hours and you're done. Four days early would be a huge difference for the theaters that get stiffed. If you start selling books a couple days early, you run out a couple days early and people go elsewhere. It happens all the time: Item A goes on sale at store B and sells out. People start saying "They have it over at store C" rinse, lather, repeat. I say sell it when you get it, pay more for faster shipping, get bigger profits if you can manage to keep the thing on your shelves. Power to the smart people, not just to the ones playing in the artificially level playing field.