I have a Sansui VCR that is 8 years old but still works like new. My wife has a 2 year old Magnavox VCR that just broke so I threw it away. The point is yes, it's true, they don't make 'em like they used to.
One of my co-workers is in the Masters of Technical Management program at Embry-Riddle University(Daytona, FL), and included with tuition you get a Dell/WinXP laptop, that you get to keep. The cool thing is that with my company's tuition reimbursement plan paying 100% of tuition, it's like the company is buying him a laptop!(and the graduate degree is a nice bonus too)
I just bought this printer with a $30 rebate. I thought my wife had already sent the rebate out so I threw away the box with the proof of purchase UPC on it, but she hadn't. So no rebate. Oh, well , i only paid $60 for the damn thing anyway.
Before the Fatwallet story this week, I had never heard of them, but now I'll probably visit the site regularly. That kind of publicity is golden, especially on the net where gaining unique visitors is so competitive. Now that wired has an article, Fatwallet must be getting tons of hits. Good for them. There's no such thing as bad publicity.
I agree. My little 500 Mhz AMD, K6II runs Photoshop 7 on Windows XP speedy as ever(and with antivirus and firwalls running). Of course, every few months I put another 128 MB of ram in it (but what's that, like $25?) I keep wanting to upgrade, but I just can't justify it yet.
I would think that the one that offers the free downloadable iso, for anybody to try will prevail. Who is going to pay $99 for an operating system they know nothing about. The WinXP upgrade was only $99, and I already know how to use that. These companies seem to have forgotten that the problem with MS is that it's expensive to own and update, whereas Linux is free(XP is as stable as any Linux distro out there).
"If hundreds of thousands of dresses were stolen from Wal-Mart, the police would assemble a task force that would have Winona Ryder shaking in her boots," Chernin said. "
These are NOT dresses we are stealing. They are ugly, torn and patched pieces of fabric that hardly resemble the original dress. Think Attack of the Clones on the big screen vs. Attack of the Clones recorded by some dope with a camcorder on his shoulder, and then uploaded to Kazaa. Who are they trying to kid? And at least the RIAA is actually losing money(although they are wrong about why it continues to happen). Motion picture studios continue to make more and more money, even though it is obvious that these crappy cam movies are easily downloaded.
"It's just a matter of time, though, before we detect one with our name on it" Yeah, we'll probably get one within the next 100 million years. That should be enough time to prepare, don't you think?
She might be making $200,000 now, but in a few years when SPAM laws get tighter (and they definitely will), she'll have to move back into the trailer park, and I'll enjoy seeing that. Spam can never be justified for being "right", when it costs some companies so much money in increased time and bandwidth costs.
I have read several of these, and I have found that they offer a nice introduction to a topic that I'm not sure how deep I want to get into yet. So now I know a little bit about everything(operating systems, programming languages, etc) but I'm not an expert in any of them. Those books, plus a little creativity on my resume makes me look like the perfect guy for the job -every job(well at least entry level).
A quote from BMG's website: Two years ago, on a worldwide basis, one digital copy was made for every three music CDs sold. Last year, that ratio had shrunk dramatically to one-to-two. In 2001, for every CD album sold, one copy was burned.
Actually the statistic I read is that in 2001 for every CD album sold, one CD-R disc was sold. Obviously we can't assume that every single CD-R disc sold in the world was used to copy a copyrighted CD. Based on my experience in statistics and research methods regarding sampling and surveys(Psych major),I'm fairly confident that no one will ever be able to claim how many CD-R's were actually used to copy copyrighted material, so any numbers they throw at us should not be believed.
My personal theory is that the surge of independent music(which is easily accesible on the internet)is really why the major labels sales are down. Not only is independent music usually better, but it's available for free on P2P's all the time(which is why killing Kazaa/Gnucleus/etc. would seriously hurt the independent musician, and give more power back to major labels). I guess I'm preaching to choir here at slashdot though.
Obviously those stockholders have never heard of Photoshop or Illustrator, software so dominating that MS had to quietly pull their own competing Photodraw off the shelf, just to save face. I'll be glad to pick up those bargain shares.
We're moving the Slashdot cluster from Exodus East to Exodus West in the next couple days. In good Slashdot Tradition, we've opened up brak.slashdot.org for you to help load test the new cluster. Currently its almost an exact copy of our existing setup (missing a couple of webheads which will be up soon). The actual move will occur late at night (most likely tonight or tomorrow depending on how things go), and will hopefully involve only a few minutes of downtime as we copy the last of the data over the continent. Thanks for your help.
Apparently several people where I work have installed this worm, and since the global address book includes all 3000 employees, it caused quite a mess. Supposedly our IT dept has blocked access to the FriendsGreetings website, and our antivirus has been set up to detect it from now on.
Maybe the French should try re-reading the works of French, postmodern writer/philosopher Michel Foucault, who wrote that repression of ideas and restriction of speech leads to discourse. France should know better. Now, Germany on the other hand . . .
"Many companies have fallen on hard times because they failed to respect the intelligence of their customers."
"Intelligence of their customers". Hmmmmm. Their customers are using Windows after all. Actually I think they are very familiar with their customers intelligence, and that's why they think they can get away with stuff like this.;)
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I have a Sansui VCR that is 8 years old but still works like new. My wife has a 2 year old Magnavox VCR that just broke so I threw it away. The point is yes, it's true, they don't make 'em like they used to.
One of my co-workers is in the Masters of Technical Management program at Embry-Riddle University(Daytona, FL), and included with tuition you get a Dell/WinXP laptop, that you get to keep. The cool thing is that with my company's tuition reimbursement plan paying 100% of tuition, it's like the company is buying him a laptop!(and the graduate degree is a nice bonus too)
It's kind of like how slashdot.org is only allowed to link to cool stuff that nerds like.
$199? Where? I can't seem to find for less than $399 (US$)
I just bought this printer with a $30 rebate. I thought my wife had already sent the rebate out so I threw away the box with the proof of purchase UPC on it, but she hadn't. So no rebate. Oh, well , i only paid $60 for the damn thing anyway.
Remember Dark City? This guy has a skill for making dark sci-fi. Yeah, it will be good.
There arent enough good old fashioned hacks on slashdot anymore.
This is clearly a solution for the large population of completely illiterate deaf people, for whom speech-to-text is not an option.
So what about TW's RoadRunner broadband customers? Do we get access as well? I've used RR for years now and I'm happy with the service.
Before the Fatwallet story this week, I had never heard of them, but now I'll probably visit the site regularly. That kind of publicity is golden, especially on the net where gaining unique visitors is so competitive. Now that wired has an article, Fatwallet must be getting tons of hits. Good for them. There's no such thing as bad publicity.
I agree. My little 500 Mhz AMD, K6II runs Photoshop 7 on Windows XP speedy as ever(and with antivirus and firwalls running). Of course, every few months I put another 128 MB of ram in it (but what's that, like $25?) I keep wanting to upgrade, but I just can't justify it yet.
I would think that the one that offers the free downloadable iso, for anybody to try will prevail. Who is going to pay $99 for an operating system they know nothing about. The WinXP upgrade was only $99, and I already know how to use that. These companies seem to have forgotten that the problem with MS is that it's expensive to own and update, whereas Linux is free(XP is as stable as any Linux distro out there).
"If hundreds of thousands of dresses were stolen from Wal-Mart, the police would assemble a task force that would have Winona Ryder shaking in her boots," Chernin said. "
These are NOT dresses we are stealing. They are ugly, torn and patched pieces of fabric that hardly resemble the original dress. Think Attack of the Clones on the big screen vs. Attack of the Clones recorded by some dope with a camcorder on his shoulder, and then uploaded to Kazaa. Who are they trying to kid? And at least the RIAA is actually losing money(although they are wrong about why it continues to happen). Motion picture studios continue to make more and more money, even though it is obvious that these crappy cam movies are easily downloaded.
no one wins, but the rich get richer.
I think one could just use that reply for every article ever posted on Slashdot.
"It's just a matter of time, though, before we detect one with our name on it"
Yeah, we'll probably get one within the next 100 million years. That should be enough time to prepare, don't you think?
In Mission Impossible voice: "This recording will self destruct in 8 hours"
She might be making $200,000 now, but in a few years when SPAM laws get tighter (and they definitely will), she'll have to move back into the trailer park, and I'll enjoy seeing that. Spam can never be justified for being "right", when it costs some companies so much money in increased time and bandwidth costs.
I have read several of these, and I have found that they offer a nice introduction to a topic that I'm not sure how deep I want to get into yet. So now I know a little bit about everything(operating systems, programming languages, etc) but I'm not an expert in any of them. Those books, plus a little creativity on my resume makes me look like the perfect guy for the job -every job(well at least entry level).
Now we've got Microsoft on the run!
A quote from BMG's website:
Two years ago, on a worldwide basis, one digital copy was made for every three music CDs sold. Last year, that ratio had shrunk dramatically to one-to-two. In 2001, for every CD album sold, one copy was burned.
Actually the statistic I read is that in 2001 for every CD album sold, one CD-R disc was sold. Obviously we can't assume that every single CD-R disc sold in the world was used to copy a copyrighted CD. Based on my experience in statistics and research methods regarding sampling and surveys(Psych major),I'm fairly confident that no one will ever be able to claim how many CD-R's were actually used to copy copyrighted material, so any numbers they throw at us should not be believed.
My personal theory is that the surge of independent music(which is easily accesible on the internet)is really why the major labels sales are down. Not only is independent music usually better, but it's available for free on P2P's all the time(which is why killing Kazaa/Gnucleus/etc. would seriously hurt the independent musician, and give more power back to major labels). I guess I'm preaching to choir here at slashdot though.
Obviously those stockholders have never heard of Photoshop or Illustrator, software so dominating that MS had to quietly pull their own competing Photodraw off the shelf, just to save face. I'll be glad to pick up those bargain shares.
We're moving the Slashdot cluster from Exodus East to Exodus West in the next couple days. In good Slashdot Tradition, we've opened up brak.slashdot.org for you to help load test the new cluster. Currently its almost an exact copy of our existing setup (missing a couple of webheads which will be up soon). The actual move will occur late at night (most likely tonight or tomorrow depending on how things go), and will hopefully involve only a few minutes of downtime as we copy the last of the data over the continent. Thanks for your help.
Apparently several people where I work have installed this worm, and since the global address book includes all 3000 employees, it caused quite a mess. Supposedly our IT dept has blocked access to the FriendsGreetings website, and our antivirus has been set up to detect it from now on.
Maybe the French should try re-reading the works of French, postmodern writer/philosopher Michel Foucault, who wrote that repression of ideas and restriction of speech leads to discourse. France should know better. Now, Germany on the other hand . . .
"Many companies have fallen on hard times because they failed to respect the intelligence of their customers."
;)
"Intelligence of their customers". Hmmmmm. Their customers are using Windows after all. Actually I think they are very familiar with their customers intelligence, and that's why they think they can get away with stuff like this.