Owz0r: Shoot the red guy.
Shoot the red guy with what?
With the BFG. Do what with the BFG?
Shoot the red guy with the BFG. The red guy is no longer in the room with you. You see exits to the north and northeast. You hear a buzzing noise to the northeast.
NE You ran into the red guy's Rocket. Your innards are splattered everywhere.
Here we go people! It's the big number one! Prepare for stories like "What is that Odor?" and "'Duke Nukem Forever' Officially Renamed to 'Duke Nukem ForgetIt'".
April first is the only day I actually get work done.
Uh yeah. They are doing that to me as well. The link is to my journal with several links to the old slashdot story and other references. By the way mods, please read the link before you mod this troll. Yes, I'm angry, and I'm sure you would be too. I repeat, it's one thing if fans are distributing my music for free via p2p, and completely another if a company is SELLING my music without my permission.
BuyMusic.com are dirty thieves! Frankly, I hope they disappear forever, and be on fire as they do it.
It's one thing to share music, it's a whole 'nother to SELL it when it's not yours. Dicks.
A perfect example of the double standards of the music industry that proclaims 'we're protecting the artists'. Notably, Congresswhores Hatch and Lehey aren't concerned with the appropriation of music from unsigned artists. Also notable is that I didn't give them hundreds of thousands for their campaigns.
What a joke. Please let the door hit your ass on the way out.
you nailed it:) I commented to the wifey on all those things. They did a logo zoom in that episode as well.
I just saw Secret Window (my 2nd movie out of three in a year) and it was rife with product placement. Doritos, Mountain Dew, Microsoft, Pall Malls. On the plus side, it does show that psycho killers use MS Word.:)
Uh. Wow. I used to live in Cambridge, then East Bethel. I now live in southern MN, about 30 minutes from any larger town, and an hour and a half from the cities (which I miss).
You aren't kidding. Cambridge used to have an arcade, teen club (ech), a roller rink (don't know if that is still there) and not much else. The arcade got closed down (damn kids makin' a ruckus), the teen club was lame and went under, and the roller rink isn't something you can do every night.
In my present town, it ain't much different, except I'm older now.
BTW, East Bethel has 25 cent pitchers on mondays. I think that says it all.
Shocking to see Lamebridge mentioned on Slashdot, so I had to reply. I know your pain.
TNT, SCI, Comedy Central and other channels have a way of throwing up an annoying and obscuring ad at the bottom of the screen. I have seen ones that obscure text such as subtitles, and other things that I am trying to read. (great timing, BTW) Not to mention the noisy ones that wreck any atmosphere the show may have generated by breaking glass, screeching tires and other sound effects intended to gain your attention.
I'm pretty sure I'm seeing the last days of television (as I knew it and literally) when I see this stuff, because all it does it annoy the hell out of me.
I would so much rather have product placement (like a Ford car chase in a recent Alias), than the crappy 'splash screens' that are pushing shows that I will never watch. Ever.
BTW, Ford seems to be everywhere these days. Tivo had a clip on the GT 40, couple of minutes and kinda cool. On American Idol (don't get me started, I'm a musician and married - guess what won?), there was a 'video' that was the most blatant product placement I've ever seen. It was a 2 plus minute Ford commercial that made me not want a Ford and hate all on the screen, because it was so obvious 'THIS IS WHAT WE ARE SELLING'.
I can appreciate advertising. I deal with marketing my company -- I know that eyeballs count. But, (and I don't need a 4 year worthless degree to know this) the first rule is 'Do no harm.' Just like a doctor, but for your product's image.
Give me something new, and something that doesn't insult my intelligence (or lack thereof), don't play it into the ground (do you want to hear Freebird, Stairway or American Pie again?) and I may consider your product. At least I won't add it to the brain 'Hate File' and refuse to buy it for my irrational dislike of your marketing. People are irrational (that's also the first rule. See?)
And seriously, the all-obscuring splash screens will insure that I will: Be pissed off at whatever you're pushing, Be pissed off at your station/channel/advertiser, and look for my show(s) on the web (bye ad dollars), DVD (see you sponsors) or give it up for good (Oh NO!).
Sleep on it. And Ford? Way to get me to complement and complain about you on Slashdot. Well played, sir. I'm still not buying an Escort.
I don't see anything wrong with that site, no outrageous claims are being made that I could find.
1500+ is more than I would spend on anything but a mac, though.
As far as music stuff goes, it would probably be an alright machine - as long as you didn't want to add an Aardvark Q10 or other pci card. My guess is that it would work fine for a Protools Mbox, 002, or midi machine. (Although windows xp sucks at midi)
but I think I'll just hang on to them. Not like I'll get any $$$ for them - right now...
Really, I think the first customer of these Samsungs is going to be some giant corporation that will pick up a pile of these and deploy them all over. Perhaps the Attorney General's office in California will grab some.:P
Companies like Verisign, Network Solutions, and Microsoft have shown that those who are supposed to be trusted, can't and shouldn't.
How is 'Trustworthy Computing' supposed to work when you can't trust the providers of the technology?
Think of the software lock-in and stranglehold that licenses are going to have on these machines - or the uselessness of a boat anchor when it gets hacked by a virus that will be allowed to run on it during its rollout period, or when it gets hacked.
Ugh. Keep your old machines, geeks! (Sorry, wives and girlfriends...)
Usually, I am first in line to install new updates (no problem with the infamous 10.2.8), but this is a new one.
I updated my Quicksilver at work and had it save the update. Update went fine, so I copied it to my 15" AL PB. When I start the installer on the PB, it runs the 'little program' then goes to the list of updates. Then the buttons on the install screen die, and I have to force quit out of the installer.
Leery to install, but perhaps it's because I didn't do the software update version.
Performance doesn't seem to be lacking on the QS, but I didn't give it a good run-through either.
I think doors aren't supposed to open into a hallway; always into a room. This must be to keep people from getting a facefull of door when they walk down the hall. I hate touching poop-handles too.
I recall brainstorming a way to actually prevent someone from leaving the restroom without washing their hands. I was at Applebee's of all places, and at least 5 different guys walked out of the bathroom without even a glance at the sink. I went through a million different technical ways and all were easily circumvented. I noticed when I washed my hands in the bathroom, others were more likely to as well.
I finally figured that the best way was to have either a hot chick sit by the door and say, "Did you wash your hands?", or a withered old one-eyed crone point a translucent finger at those who didn't and scream, "UNCLEAN! UNCLEAN!".
Maybe follow them into the resturant if they refuse. "UNCLEAN! UNCLEAN! Shun him who walks among you - UNCLEAN!"
Well, there's QNX (fits on a floppy) and BeOS (about 160 megs, IIRC). Both faster than hell.
BeOS is the closest I've seen to instantaneous reaction to user input. The 'bloat' difference between OS X and XP is that I can uninstall most anything on the mac, whereas Bill's gotta make it 'integrated'.:(
Well there's a good chance you'll never see this, but here goes. Apple is selling the mini for 250- the HDs go for 400 (retail) - thats a lot of margin.
Hitachi could have been negotiating with Apple on price, or Apple could have been unhappy with the offer. Somewhere at sometime there were sales negotiation.
It's kind of moot. The point I was making, and the likely reason for the Insightful mod, is that/. has editors (yes, they call themselves that) that either: didn't read the story, didn't notice the error, or saw the error and didn't care enough to change it.
IOW, If it's not clear, fix it.
Otherwise what? gooD teh rU1ez, a Re of) PuntcutOIN (AnD SP33Ling!
My guess is that it will be similar to piracy of software. People grab a warezed Photoshop, use it and become proficient in it, then when it comes time to actually spend the $$$ on an app for work, the pirate turns legit.
Of course, there will always be those who will just use the warez copy - and never would (or could) spend the $$$ on the app, so no loss.
Apple has the advantage of hardware here - you can dupe the looks, but you can't dupe the whole package.
I'd guess that this will only increase sales of iPods - the promise of the 'look and feel' coupled with the extended functionality and storage of the iPod will probably drive Apple's hardware sales.
Those who would never spend 250 bucks on an MP3 player still won't buy one, but that is no big loss to Apple. They are obviously marketing to people who aren't cheap bastards.:)
I think this will work out in Apple's favor; you can dupe the UI but not the hardware and the funtionality (ease of use, integration).
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Now combine this with a Norelco optical mouse, and I think you've got a wiener.
I meant winner.
Shoot the red guy with what?
With the BFG.
Do what with the BFG?
Shoot the red guy with the BFG.
The red guy is no longer in the room with you. You see exits to the north and northeast. You hear a buzzing noise to the northeast.
NE
You ran into the red guy's Rocket. Your innards are splattered everywhere.
Hit space to respawn.
April first is the only day I actually get work done.
Don't feed the trolls.
Also, the 'patent the patent' ad infinitum has been played out long ago.
You might get some legs from patenting patent patenting, but I'm pretty sure that died a well earned death as well.
Good luck in your Slashdot career.
http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/gate.exe?f=login&p_lan
etc.
Dummies. Isn't that like firemen practicing on their own house?
kiss.my.org
Uh yeah. They are doing that to me as well. The link is to my journal with several links to the old slashdot story and other references. By the way mods, please read the link before you mod this troll. Yes, I'm angry, and I'm sure you would be too. I repeat, it's one thing if fans are distributing my music for free via p2p, and completely another if a company is SELLING my music without my permission.
It's one thing to share music, it's a whole 'nother to SELL it when it's not yours. Dicks.
A perfect example of the double standards of the music industry that proclaims 'we're protecting the artists'. Notably, Congresswhores Hatch and Lehey aren't concerned with the appropriation of music from unsigned artists. Also notable is that I didn't give them hundreds of thousands for their campaigns.
What a joke. Please let the door hit your ass on the way out.
I just saw Secret Window (my 2nd movie out of three in a year) and it was rife with product placement. Doritos, Mountain Dew, Microsoft, Pall Malls. On the plus side, it does show that psycho killers use MS Word. :)
In my present town, it ain't much different, except I'm older now.
BTW, East Bethel has 25 cent pitchers on mondays. I think that says it all. Shocking to see Lamebridge mentioned on Slashdot, so I had to reply. I know your pain.
I can pretty much guarantee that I'll see one on Slashdot every other story.
I'm pretty sure I'm seeing the last days of television (as I knew it and literally) when I see this stuff, because all it does it annoy the hell out of me.
I would so much rather have product placement (like a Ford car chase in a recent Alias), than the crappy 'splash screens' that are pushing shows that I will never watch. Ever.
BTW, Ford seems to be everywhere these days. Tivo had a clip on the GT 40, couple of minutes and kinda cool. On American Idol (don't get me started, I'm a musician and married - guess what won?), there was a 'video' that was the most blatant product placement I've ever seen. It was a 2 plus minute Ford commercial that made me not want a Ford and hate all on the screen, because it was so obvious 'THIS IS WHAT WE ARE SELLING'.
I can appreciate advertising. I deal with marketing my company -- I know that eyeballs count. But, (and I don't need a 4 year worthless degree to know this) the first rule is 'Do no harm.' Just like a doctor, but for your product's image.
Give me something new, and something that doesn't insult my intelligence (or lack thereof), don't play it into the ground (do you want to hear Freebird, Stairway or American Pie again?) and I may consider your product. At least I won't add it to the brain 'Hate File' and refuse to buy it for my irrational dislike of your marketing. People are irrational (that's also the first rule. See?)
And seriously, the all-obscuring splash screens will insure that I will: Be pissed off at whatever you're pushing, Be pissed off at your station/channel/advertiser, and look for my show(s) on the web (bye ad dollars), DVD (see you sponsors) or give it up for good (Oh NO!).
Sleep on it. And Ford? Way to get me to complement and complain about you on Slashdot. Well played, sir. I'm still not buying an Escort.
I guess I'll be using the command line today.
I may have to re-release the Mars landing too, depending on how well they did...
Beagle was a great idea, btw. Spend the money and then oops! no mission to render. Sheer genius.
And didn't people say, "Uh, no."? And didn't the company go under? And how would this be different?
1500+ is more than I would spend on anything but a mac, though.
As far as music stuff goes, it would probably be an alright machine - as long as you didn't want to add an Aardvark Q10 or other pci card. My guess is that it would work fine for a Protools Mbox, 002, or midi machine. (Although windows xp sucks at midi)
It sounds like he's got his hands full.
Really, I think the first customer of these Samsungs is going to be some giant corporation that will pick up a pile of these and deploy them all over. Perhaps the Attorney General's office in California will grab some. :P
Companies like Verisign, Network Solutions, and Microsoft have shown that those who are supposed to be trusted, can't and shouldn't.
How is 'Trustworthy Computing' supposed to work when you can't trust the providers of the technology?
Think of the software lock-in and stranglehold that licenses are going to have on these machines - or the uselessness of a boat anchor when it gets hacked by a virus that will be allowed to run on it during its rollout period, or when it gets hacked.
Ugh. Keep your old machines, geeks! (Sorry, wives and girlfriends...)
I updated my Quicksilver at work and had it save the update. Update went fine, so I copied it to my 15" AL PB. When I start the installer on the PB, it runs the 'little program' then goes to the list of updates. Then the buttons on the install screen die, and I have to force quit out of the installer.
Leery to install, but perhaps it's because I didn't do the software update version.
Performance doesn't seem to be lacking on the QS, but I didn't give it a good run-through either.
I recall brainstorming a way to actually prevent someone from leaving the restroom without washing their hands. I was at Applebee's of all places, and at least 5 different guys walked out of the bathroom without even a glance at the sink. I went through a million different technical ways and all were easily circumvented. I noticed when I washed my hands in the bathroom, others were more likely to as well.
I finally figured that the best way was to have either a hot chick sit by the door and say, "Did you wash your hands?", or a withered old one-eyed crone point a translucent finger at those who didn't and scream, "UNCLEAN! UNCLEAN!".
Maybe follow them into the resturant if they refuse. "UNCLEAN! UNCLEAN! Shun him who walks among you - UNCLEAN!"
All the cleaning power of corn cobs, but with a hi-tech twist!
I just really felt bad for the temps.
It's about time people are just randomly killed for that.
BeOS is the closest I've seen to instantaneous reaction to user input. The 'bloat' difference between OS X and XP is that I can uninstall most anything on the mac, whereas Bill's gotta make it 'integrated'. :(
Hitachi could have been negotiating with Apple on price, or Apple could have been unhappy with the offer. Somewhere at sometime there were sales negotiation.
It's kind of moot. The point I was making, and the likely reason for the Insightful mod, is that /. has editors (yes, they call themselves that) that either: didn't read the story, didn't notice the error, or saw the error and didn't care enough to change it.
IOW, If it's not clear, fix it.
Otherwise what? gooD teh rU1ez, a Re of) PuntcutOIN (AnD SP33Ling!
Of course, there will always be those who will just use the warez copy - and never would (or could) spend the $$$ on the app, so no loss.
Apple has the advantage of hardware here - you can dupe the looks, but you can't dupe the whole package.
I'd guess that this will only increase sales of iPods - the promise of the 'look and feel' coupled with the extended functionality and storage of the iPod will probably drive Apple's hardware sales.
Those who would never spend 250 bucks on an MP3 player still won't buy one, but that is no big loss to Apple. They are obviously marketing to people who aren't cheap bastards. :)
I think this will work out in Apple's favor; you can dupe the UI but not the hardware and the funtionality (ease of use, integration).
Congrats on making the 'big switch', BTW. :)