I'd rather go hunting with Dick Cheney. The guy lived, and he still has his civil liberties. Some pain and a hospital stay for one person is worth it for everone else. the Cheney story was another example of stupid media sensationalism (not related to partisanism but sometimes it can be) -- remember how much Chandra Levy was covered?
Hell, in 2000, there was constant election 2000 coverage, even when they were pretty much saying, every hour, "We're still waiting for news."
"They're still counting ballots in Miami-Dade at this moment. Only 4,000 boxes* left!" It was like a demented New Years Eve countdown that lasted two months.
* And 800 dangling, swinging, jiggling, clusterfucking chads in a pair tree.
You're a friggin idiot. Have you tried to buy cold medicine lately? Do you think the extra hassle for customers has stopped meth labs? It's stupid and if you need to get it after the pharmacy closes it's impossible and you're fucked. And I have lived near a meth lab (and near a meth lab that exploded because methheads are stupid; burned their house down. I have a feeling insurance didn't cover it.), and it IS uncomfortable, but I know for a fact restricting access to cold medicine hasn't stopped meth at all.
Nintendo isn't number 3; Microsoft has yet to make a profit from the X-Box. They lose $100 a system, and only in one quarter did they make more than they lose -- right around the Halo release. Even if you go by sales the Gamecube is right there with the X-Box. But the Playstation is blowing them all away: The PS2 has about fifty million more sales than the X-Box or Gamecube.
Nintendo went from number one to number two, not down to three. They're still ahead of Microsoft in the console war. And with the 360 coming out so early I'm getting Dreamcast vibes from it. Too fast to market.
If you look at the portables market, Nintendo is still completely dominating and the PSP is sort of like throwing rocks at a tank.
That's not to say Nintendo's third party support isn't a problem, but we'll just have to see with the Revolution.
Not surprised that Sony is doing better. Surprised that Nintendo and Microsoft are on the same footing, though. Oh well; I stand corrected. I still don't see Nintendo going the way of Sega any time soon.
Show me the data. As it stands, I know just as many people who own a Gamecube as a PS2, and I only know one guy who has an X-Box. Anecdotal? Yes. But Nintendo has die-hard fans, and not all their games focus on kids. This is a logical fallacy caused by people who just see Pokemon and the colorful things.
Dark brooding games do not automatically equal better games.
Disclosure: I have both a PS2 and a Gamecube, and have an equal number of games for both.
I was one of the original adopters of Livejournal (account 150-something), and so I remember back when it was pretty much just Brad Fitz making Livejournal (and at the time, FreeVote). I also remember when, all the sudden, the user numbers were in the hundreds of thousands. There's crap on Livejournal. And good God, there's crap on Blogger. I'm not saying it's all crap, because some Geocities/Angelfire/Tripod sites were kind of cool. Most of them moved on to something better.
Slashdot could even be an example: How many utter crap posts do we get a week?
Blogging has almost become the new Geocities. Anyone remember how many tons of crappy pages there were on Geocities in the late nineties? Every thirteen year old had a goofy ass page with a midi background and talked about how cool they were, or how shitty their life was (bonus if there was goth poetry). Now, blogging is like that, because everyone can have a blog for free. It's sort of like the September that Never Ended.
Like homepages in the 90s, there are some good blogs, but most are crap. For example: 99% of Myspace.com.
Any big or noticable difference is going to cause problems with a bunch of kids. They have a herd mind a lot of the time. This seems like a no brainer: Puberty changes a whole beowulf cluster of things about you, and if you're the first in your peer group, then there's a significant chance that the immaturity and herd-mindedness will cause you problems.
It has nothing to do with society or anything else, just peer pressure and the attitude of kids/teens.
I've used both the same amount, and even older versions dwarf GIMP. My home system is currently Slackware without a trace of Windows (because I'm both cheap and honest), so this is coming from a seriously crazy Linux fan*, but if I had any real need for graphical design? I'd need Photoshop.
* Sorry to other Slackware users, but to dive in with SW requires a certain amount of crazy.
Except for where I'm mocking the typical slashbots. You took my post as serious. It was not. I thought including the line about the sky falling was obvious. I woke up in a snarky, sarcastic mood.
Where re the posts complaining about privacy invasion?! Where are the "OMG Bush is stealing our freedom" posts?! The sky is falling! A technoligical government advance hasn't brought on a horde of posts complaining about how they should need a warrant to do this!
Actually, the problem now is that most elected officials aren't smart enough to understand technology. We have people who couldn't even start a computer without help out there making laws about computers*. Why not just let the blind make traffic laws while we're at it?
* I have no actual evidence about any individual elected official. I'm just assuming they're as stupid as they act.
Have you ever heard of the Pinto? It was a rather unfortunate looking, cheap car made by Ford. It had a bad reputation for not reacting well when rear-ended: The gas tank often exploded. Wikipedia covers the issue. Some of it is possibly exaggerated, as the fatalities are about the norm... but most car fatalities don't involve burning to death. I'll take being killed instantly any day.
With such a small distance, it's very possible for a gas tank to be pushed forward when the back of a car is crushed. Look at almost any compact car. The back is generally the compact part; you don't see a lot of cars designed like a school bus where the driver is at the very front.
I'm sure this topic will be followed with hundreds of posts about why patents are evil, about how we're patenting too much, blah blah yeah. I agree. This, though? How the hell could a patent clerk look at this and stamp it? Did they even look at it? Do we have any recourse or any way to fire these morons? Why in the name of all that is holy did this GET patented?
Patents are out of control... I'm just wondering if anyone has any input on how the hell they get by with this bullshit.
I'm not saying I wouldn't accept 1.6 billion dollars. I'm just saying that it's obvious they're happy with a dollar a year -- look at the other money they have. If Bill Gates called me tomorrow and said "Hey I have two billion dollars for you." I wouldn't say no. I have a brain. But I'd be extremely giddy over 160 million too.
So if there's a crazy billionaire out there with some pocket change...
I was talking just about the stock sold over the last month, which the article heading says was $160 million. Just that is a ridiculous number to me (and I imagine most people), let alone the other bigger numbers.
Line from the article: "reporting that the executives cashed in more than $160 million worth of stock last month.". That, alone, is a ton of money. I picked the smallest number (other than $1), and that was kind of the point.
I'd never want another dime if I had that much. Hell, I could give half of it away, live off the interest, and give away most of the interest, and still live happily ever after. The headline "Google Execs Happy with $1 Salaries" is a gigantic DUH considering how much loot they have already. Working in a job they love in what has to be a relaxed, comfortable atmosphere doesn't hurt either, I'd guess.
I don't know if I should be surprised, amused, or intrigued.
I'd say "Now I've seen everything" but then someone would reply with USB-capable breast implants that download different shapes, sizes, and firmness...
"Should I go Britney today, or should I go Jenna?"
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I live on the Gulf Coast, so I feel qualified to call bullshit on point C. Camille and Frederic came right around the times when scientists were whinging about Global Cooling. Both were pretty damn bad. Had Camille hit New Orleans the way Katrina did, New Orleans would have been totally destroyed. As it is, only certain areas in New Orleans got destroyed. Most of the French Quarter came out okay. Most damage from Katrina was storm surge. Almost no one living north of I-10 lost their home. -- too far from the water.
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I'd rather go hunting with Dick Cheney. The guy lived, and he still has his civil liberties. Some pain and a hospital stay for one person is worth it for everone else. the Cheney story was another example of stupid media sensationalism (not related to partisanism but sometimes it can be) -- remember how much Chandra Levy was covered?
Hell, in 2000, there was constant election 2000 coverage, even when they were pretty much saying, every hour, "We're still waiting for news."
"They're still counting ballots in Miami-Dade at this moment. Only 4,000 boxes* left!" It was like a demented New Years Eve countdown that lasted two months.
* And 800 dangling, swinging, jiggling, clusterfucking chads in a pair tree.
You're a friggin idiot. Have you tried to buy cold medicine lately? Do you think the extra hassle for customers has stopped meth labs? It's stupid and if you need to get it after the pharmacy closes it's impossible and you're fucked. And I have lived near a meth lab (and near a meth lab that exploded because methheads are stupid; burned their house down. I have a feeling insurance didn't cover it.), and it IS uncomfortable, but I know for a fact restricting access to cold medicine hasn't stopped meth at all.
Nintendo isn't number 3; Microsoft has yet to make a profit from the X-Box. They lose $100 a system, and only in one quarter did they make more than they lose -- right around the Halo release. Even if you go by sales the Gamecube is right there with the X-Box. But the Playstation is blowing them all away: The PS2 has about fifty million more sales than the X-Box or Gamecube.
Nintendo went from number one to number two, not down to three. They're still ahead of Microsoft in the console war. And with the 360 coming out so early I'm getting Dreamcast vibes from it. Too fast to market.
If you look at the portables market, Nintendo is still completely dominating and the PSP is sort of like throwing rocks at a tank.
That's not to say Nintendo's third party support isn't a problem, but we'll just have to see with the Revolution.
Not surprised that Sony is doing better. Surprised that Nintendo and Microsoft are on the same footing, though. Oh well; I stand corrected. I still don't see Nintendo going the way of Sega any time soon.
Show me the data. As it stands, I know just as many people who own a Gamecube as a PS2, and I only know one guy who has an X-Box. Anecdotal? Yes. But Nintendo has die-hard fans, and not all their games focus on kids. This is a logical fallacy caused by people who just see Pokemon and the colorful things.
Dark brooding games do not automatically equal better games.
Disclosure: I have both a PS2 and a Gamecube, and have an equal number of games for both.
I was one of the original adopters of Livejournal (account 150-something), and so I remember back when it was pretty much just Brad Fitz making Livejournal (and at the time, FreeVote). I also remember when, all the sudden, the user numbers were in the hundreds of thousands. There's crap on Livejournal. And good God, there's crap on Blogger. I'm not saying it's all crap, because some Geocities/Angelfire/Tripod sites were kind of cool. Most of them moved on to something better.
Slashdot could even be an example: How many utter crap posts do we get a week?
Blogging has almost become the new Geocities. Anyone remember how many tons of crappy pages there were on Geocities in the late nineties? Every thirteen year old had a goofy ass page with a midi background and talked about how cool they were, or how shitty their life was (bonus if there was goth poetry). Now, blogging is like that, because everyone can have a blog for free. It's sort of like the September that Never Ended.
Like homepages in the 90s, there are some good blogs, but most are crap. For example: 99% of Myspace.com.
Any big or noticable difference is going to cause problems with a bunch of kids. They have a herd mind a lot of the time. This seems like a no brainer: Puberty changes a whole beowulf cluster of things about you, and if you're the first in your peer group, then there's a significant chance that the immaturity and herd-mindedness will cause you problems. It has nothing to do with society or anything else, just peer pressure and the attitude of kids/teens.
I've used both the same amount, and even older versions dwarf GIMP. My home system is currently Slackware without a trace of Windows (because I'm both cheap and honest), so this is coming from a seriously crazy Linux fan*, but if I had any real need for graphical design? I'd need Photoshop.
* Sorry to other Slackware users, but to dive in with SW requires a certain amount of crazy.
Except for where I'm mocking the typical slashbots. You took my post as serious. It was not. I thought including the line about the sky falling was obvious. I woke up in a snarky, sarcastic mood.
Where re the posts complaining about privacy invasion?! Where are the "OMG Bush is stealing our freedom" posts?! The sky is falling! A technoligical government advance hasn't brought on a horde of posts complaining about how they should need a warrant to do this!
Actually, the problem now is that most elected officials aren't smart enough to understand technology. We have people who couldn't even start a computer without help out there making laws about computers*. Why not just let the blind make traffic laws while we're at it?
* I have no actual evidence about any individual elected official. I'm just assuming they're as stupid as they act.
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Have you ever heard of the Pinto? It was a rather unfortunate looking, cheap car made by Ford. It had a bad reputation for not reacting well when rear-ended: The gas tank often exploded. Wikipedia covers the issue. Some of it is possibly exaggerated, as the fatalities are about the norm... but most car fatalities don't involve burning to death. I'll take being killed instantly any day.
With such a small distance, it's very possible for a gas tank to be pushed forward when the back of a car is crushed. Look at almost any compact car. The back is generally the compact part; you don't see a lot of cars designed like a school bus where the driver is at the very front.
Ah. Thanks for clearing that up.
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I'm sure this topic will be followed with hundreds of posts about why patents are evil, about how we're patenting too much, blah blah yeah. I agree. This, though? How the hell could a patent clerk look at this and stamp it? Did they even look at it? Do we have any recourse or any way to fire these morons? Why in the name of all that is holy did this GET patented?
Patents are out of control... I'm just wondering if anyone has any input on how the hell they get by with this bullshit.
I'm not saying I wouldn't accept 1.6 billion dollars. I'm just saying that it's obvious they're happy with a dollar a year -- look at the other money they have. If Bill Gates called me tomorrow and said "Hey I have two billion dollars for you." I wouldn't say no. I have a brain. But I'd be extremely giddy over 160 million too.
So if there's a crazy billionaire out there with some pocket change...
I was talking just about the stock sold over the last month, which the article heading says was $160 million. Just that is a ridiculous number to me (and I imagine most people), let alone the other bigger numbers.
Line from the article: "reporting that the executives cashed in more than $160 million worth of stock last month.". That, alone, is a ton of money. I picked the smallest number (other than $1), and that was kind of the point.
I'd never want another dime if I had that much. Hell, I could give half of it away, live off the interest, and give away most of the interest, and still live happily ever after. The headline "Google Execs Happy with $1 Salaries" is a gigantic DUH considering how much loot they have already. Working in a job they love in what has to be a relaxed, comfortable atmosphere doesn't hurt either, I'd guess.
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I think we're overlooking the real news here: They got Windows to run!
I don't know if I should be surprised, amused, or intrigued.
I'd say "Now I've seen everything" but then someone would reply with USB-capable breast implants that download different shapes, sizes, and firmness...
"Should I go Britney today, or should I go Jenna?"
Announcing the USB Vibrator.
Download different settings onto the flash memory! Plus an internet connection, make it programmable, and you can titilate your woman from across the globe!
Disclaimer:
USB Vibrator, Inc. takes no responsibility if your USB Vibrator is hacked and some crazy fourteen year old puts it on the highest setting while your significant other is in a meeting.
Global warming! (/sarcasm)
Hey, some of us get our porn from usenet. alt.multimedia.hot.grits.binaries baby!
I live on the Gulf Coast, so I feel qualified to call bullshit on point C. Camille and Frederic came right around the times when scientists were whinging about Global Cooling. Both were pretty damn bad. Had Camille hit New Orleans the way Katrina did, New Orleans would have been totally destroyed. As it is, only certain areas in New Orleans got destroyed. Most of the French Quarter came out okay. Most damage from Katrina was storm surge. Almost no one living north of I-10 lost their home. -- too far from the water.