But since they used self-detruct tapes first, and discs later, a precedent has been established that they might make a change in media from time to time.
They even had a dark haired guy (Stephen Boyd) the first year instead of Phelps.
You can't legislate morality because if the only thing keeping you from doing something "wrong" (admittedly a very grey area) is fear of being punished for breaking the law that prohibits doing that "wrong" thing, then you aren't refraining from doing that "wrong" thing because of your own personal morals. Basically morality is defined by what you would or wouldn't do if you were sure you could get away with it and no one, except yourself, would ever know. Legislating morality is like passing a law making everybody have the same favorite color. Some people already thought that way and the rest are now lying about it, but the law has no effect on how they really feel.
I'm not sure if Connery could match Grant in the comedy department, although it would be interesting to be able to see Connery in a remake of "Arsenic and Old Lace"--even better if it were a British-ized version, sort of a reverse on the "Steptoe and Son" becomes "Sanford and Son" process--made about the same time that George Lazenby decided he didn't want to be James Bond anymore either, but not viewed until now so that you had gotten some mental distance between Connery the actor and Bond the character.
You probably did a good thing including the IMDB links, you just shouldn't have included them in the text of the quote of the poster. Once you change a quote in any way, it's not a quote anymore. I found it uncomfortable to read that part, knowing it almost certainly not to be something found in the original--the placement appeared to be a symptom of "This is the Web, we have to make everything clickable" disease.
If you had followed the quote of Packard's words (or, better yet, placed at the end of your submission) with something along the lines of "For those unfamiliar with the films and actors mentioned on the poster, here's a list of links", it would have still accomplished your laudable goal.
All that said, thanks for the submission. Without it I might never have known of Packard's words.
Actually it's called Free On Board, and if strictly interpreted refers only to items transported by ship or boat. If you've got Adobe Acrobat Reader installed, check this link for the official definition.
Unfortunately math seems to be taught with the "You should learn math because you should learn math" approach instead of "Math isn't necessarily easy but it's kinda like pumping iron for your brain and let me show you how understanding it can help you design a better electric guitar pickup, a cooler video game, a more powerful automobile engine, a house that cost less to buy and less to own that gives you more space and lasts longer, manage your money better, and (insert a zillion other examples here)".
"If someone wanted to learn how to program all they need is a computer and some software."
If you mean if someone wanted to learn some programming languages, then yes, but there is a reason why they call it computer science(i.e., lotsa theory and such, an understanding of what ought to be done in hardware and what ought to be done in software, etc.). There's a lot to be said for being self-taught, but in figuring out what to teach yourself and where to find it you waste a lot of time re-inventing the wheel.
I used to very carefully check the "don't add the bonus point" box ( and I still think it should be opt-in instead of opt-out), but I discovered that posting with the extra point means I get fewer down-moderations where it's pretty obvious that the moderator in question has an ax to grind. You'd think it'd be the other way around, but apparently not. So now I just post without worrying about it.
"I can't believe M$ would actually go so far as to prevent searches for RealAudio files."
Nothing new here. Windows 95 breaks DOS compatibility. Go into (File) Explorer and try to find anything with a.PIF extension. Sure you can use the "Find" feature (but it still won't show the extension), but if you just look at the file listings all you see is the file name without the extension and in the "type" column it doesn't call it a "Program Information File", it calls it a "Shortcut to MS-DOS Program". You can't use the "Options, File Type" windowlet (they should change the name of the OS to "peephole") to change this, either. There is no way (except perhaps the always risky regedit) to force (File) Explorer to show the.pif extension.
"the comments on the past several stories have been far too narrow, and consequently exceeding difficult to read. Would some kind soul please expand these pages to a more acceptable width?"
They aren't too narrow, your monitor is too wide. If you just use a narrower monitor you'll be able to enjoy those horizontal scroll bars to your heart's content. Perhaps you can adapt an old oscilloscope, as I'm sure that a person of your tastes in raster aspect ratios is of course an absolute wizard in all technology-related matters.
No, it has not always been that way. Once upon a time not so very long ago you could count on the ABC, NBC, or CBS programs to start exactly at 8:00pm, exactly at 9:00pm, and exactly at 10:00pm. I think what they're doing now is stretching the highest rated shows from 60 minutes to 61 or 62 minutes so as to insert more advertising within that particular show. For instance, NBC starts ER on Thursday nights a minute or so earlier than 10:00pm in order to be done exactly at 11:00 when the local affiliates make their major money on the local news (which now runs until 11:35pm instead of 11:30pm so that the locals can insert more ads). Whatever Fox is running just before the 9:00pm airing of 24 on Tuesday nights doesn't actually finish completely (ending credits, etc) until about 9:01pm. Same deal with CBS and "Survivor" or whatever that show is that they think is worthy of a news story the next morning.
Are they doing this to screw over VCR users? No, that's just a fringe benefit for them.
"Its (sic) industry wide collusion against consumers."
Well, maybe not. Remember waiting for the 56K modem situation to stabalize so that you could buy one at a not too painful price and with no worry about having to replace it if you changed ISPs? And then along came the Winmodems? And the only way to get a decent share of the 56K modem market was to be making Winmodems?
As soon as the first company offered an ink jet printer at an artificially low price with an eye towards making their money on the replacement cartridges, all the other companies selling ink jet printers would have had to either get out of the ink jet business, move to that same "razor and blades" business plan, or spend a few decades worth of advertising budget each and every year trying to convince people that paying twice or three times as much for what's pretty much the same printer as the competition's because the replacement cartridges will be cheaper is the better way to go. Most consumers, howvever, looking at how much they're going to have to spend up front are going to buy the cheaper printer, figuring to cross the "more expensive replacement cartridges" bridge when they come to it. Especially if they stop to figure out how many pages they'll have to print in order to break even on the more expensive printer. I got a Lexmark Z11 a year or more ago and at the rate I'm going my first cartridge will probably die from old age before the ink runs out, so this "razor and blades" situation works to my advantage (except for all the "ink refill" spam I keep getting).
HP appears to have a trick up their sleeve, though. Everytime power to my mom's printer is restored after being off, the printer cranks out a multi-color test page:-(
I've got a (socket 4) Pentium 60 with heatsink but no fan that can double as a waffle iron:-)
About the pizza, though, if it ain't good cold (next day after overnighting in the fridge--the pizza, not you--), then it wasn't really good to begin with.
"Add some RAM to those machine be happy with them."
Amen. I've seen plenty of examples of the same program running on the same machine but with two or three times the RAM, and it can make a major difference.
"...since no REAL human would enjoy pudding that much."
The fiction part is that the reaction is what you would only get in real life to real, cooked slowly on the top of the stove, constantly stirring, made from scratch, using only the best of ingredients, pudding.
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They even had a dark haired guy (Stephen Boyd) the first year instead of Phelps.
Should you or any of your I.M. Force be killed or captured, the secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions.
This disk will self-destruct in 5 seconds.
Yeah, it's a shame about that punch card reader, but the monitor CRT is one big old vacuum tube.
Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war-dialing?
What about copyrights? Do they let the patent office mess with them as well?
Am I mistaken in thinking that the Patent Office deals with patents and some other agency deals with trademarks, registered marks, and copyrights?
How much do you have to pay to which company for Earthlink over RoadRunner's cable?
You can't legislate morality because if the only thing keeping you from doing something "wrong" (admittedly a very grey area) is fear of being punished for breaking the law that prohibits doing that "wrong" thing, then you aren't refraining from doing that "wrong" thing because of your own personal morals. Basically morality is defined by what you would or wouldn't do if you were sure you could get away with it and no one, except yourself, would ever know. Legislating morality is like passing a law making everybody have the same favorite color. Some people already thought that way and the rest are now lying about it, but the law has no effect on how they really feel.
You probably did a good thing including the IMDB links, you just shouldn't have included them in the text of the quote of the poster. Once you change a quote in any way, it's not a quote anymore. I found it uncomfortable to read that part, knowing it almost certainly not to be something found in the original--the placement appeared to be a symptom of "This is the Web, we have to make everything clickable" disease.
If you had followed the quote of Packard's words (or, better yet, placed at the end of your submission) with something along the lines of "For those unfamiliar with the films and actors mentioned on the poster, here's a list of links", it would have still accomplished your laudable goal.
All that said, thanks for the submission. Without it I might never have known of Packard's words.
It wasn't all that long ago that Lucent was the revered and venerable Bell Labs. :-(
http://www.iccwbo.org/incoterms/preambles/pdf/FOB. pdf
Shouldn't you have been waiting for a sleigh?
On the other hand, imagine some very young geek in that other Oak Hill when the truck showed. "Hey, Santa did get my letter!"
Overheard in Redmond--"Let's sell it to Americans. They'll buy anything"
Unfortunately math seems to be taught with the "You should learn math because you should learn math" approach instead of "Math isn't necessarily easy but it's kinda like pumping iron for your brain and let me show you how understanding it can help you design a better electric guitar pickup, a cooler video game, a more powerful automobile engine, a house that cost less to buy and less to own that gives you more space and lasts longer, manage your money better, and (insert a zillion other examples here)".
If you mean if someone wanted to learn some programming languages, then yes, but there is a reason why they call it computer science(i.e., lotsa theory and such, an understanding of what ought to be done in hardware and what ought to be done in software, etc.). There's a lot to be said for being self-taught, but in figuring out what to teach yourself and where to find it you waste a lot of time re-inventing the wheel.
If we're talking about politicians, shouldn't that be "pimp-slap"?
I used to very carefully check the "don't add the bonus point" box ( and I still think it should be opt-in instead of opt-out), but I discovered that posting with the extra point means I get fewer down-moderations where it's pretty obvious that the moderator in question has an ax to grind. You'd think it'd be the other way around, but apparently not. So now I just post without worrying about it.
Nothing new here. Windows 95 breaks DOS compatibility. Go into (File) Explorer and try to find anything with a .PIF extension. Sure you can use the "Find" feature (but it still won't show the extension), but if you just look at the file listings all you see is the file name without the extension and in the "type" column it doesn't call it a "Program Information File", it calls it a "Shortcut to MS-DOS Program". You can't use the "Options, File Type" windowlet (they should change the name of the OS to "peephole") to change this, either. There is no way (except perhaps the always risky regedit) to force (File) Explorer to show the .pif extension.
I browse at -1 only to have to put up with this wide page crap? Come on Slashdot, fix the bug already.
They aren't too narrow, your monitor is too wide. If you just use a narrower monitor you'll be able to enjoy those horizontal scroll bars to your heart's content. Perhaps you can adapt an old oscilloscope, as I'm sure that a person of your tastes in raster aspect ratios is of course an absolute wizard in all technology-related matters.
Are they doing this to screw over VCR users? No, that's just a fringe benefit for them.
Well, maybe not. Remember waiting for the 56K modem situation to stabalize so that you could buy one at a not too painful price and with no worry about having to replace it if you changed ISPs? And then along came the Winmodems? And the only way to get a decent share of the 56K modem market was to be making Winmodems?
As soon as the first company offered an ink jet printer at an artificially low price with an eye towards making their money on the replacement cartridges, all the other companies selling ink jet printers would have had to either get out of the ink jet business, move to that same "razor and blades" business plan, or spend a few decades worth of advertising budget each and every year trying to convince people that paying twice or three times as much for what's pretty much the same printer as the competition's because the replacement cartridges will be cheaper is the better way to go. Most consumers, howvever, looking at how much they're going to have to spend up front are going to buy the cheaper printer, figuring to cross the "more expensive replacement cartridges" bridge when they come to it. Especially if they stop to figure out how many pages they'll have to print in order to break even on the more expensive printer. I got a Lexmark Z11 a year or more ago and at the rate I'm going my first cartridge will probably die from old age before the ink runs out, so this "razor and blades" situation works to my advantage (except for all the "ink refill" spam I keep getting).
HP appears to have a trick up their sleeve, though. Everytime power to my mom's printer is restored after being off, the printer cranks out a multi-color test page :-(
I've got a (socket 4) Pentium 60 with heatsink but no fan that can double as a waffle iron :-)
About the pizza, though, if it ain't good cold (next day after overnighting in the fridge--the pizza, not you--), then it wasn't really good to begin with.
Amen. I've seen plenty of examples of the same program running on the same machine but with two or three times the RAM, and it can make a major difference.
The fiction part is that the reaction is what you would only get in real life to real, cooked slowly on the top of the stove, constantly stirring, made from scratch, using only the best of ingredients, pudding.