How much are they selling this for? First of all, paying money for a boxed version of software I can get for free online seems rather silly. They are offering up a headset though, though I suspect it's probably not of the highest quality. What exactly are you paying for, and how much is it going to cost? While this might raise awareness about the service, I fail to see how it's anything more than a money grab by eBay.
This is not the first time PayPal screwed over Lowtax. You used to be able to register for the Awful Forums with PayPal (in case you don't know, the Awful Forums cost a one time $10 to join, unless you get banned and have to pay again), but they pulled out on him, claiming the forums were "inappropriate content" and left Lowtax owed a great deal of money.
I think that is how the story goes, goons or others, feel free to correct me.
Oh I know it'd be a terrible idea, but since when has that stopped anybody?
Episode VII - Lucas Smells Green
Episode VIII - Attack of the Lame New Characters and Unnecessary Special Effects
Episode IX - Just Let it Die
At any rate, I'm going to see this third one, if only to see how the story wraps up
And I'm a rabid fanboy.
First I see "going to CVS" in someone's away message and think, "How can you go to CVS...oh the drug store."
Now, I see E17 available at CVS and I think, "Why is/. reporting on a drug store?.....oh the code thing. Right."
I'm convinced the new "FIRST POST!!!!!1111" comment is "SLASHDOT DOESN'T RENDER RIGHT IN FIREFOX!!!!!!" Seriously I've been using Firefox for several months now, check Slashdot multiple times a day (because I'm a huge loser with too much time, let's just get that one out of the way), and I've had/. render incorrectly ONCE. Out of the hundreds of times I've loaded this page, that's a percentage I can deal with. I would choose a fast, secure browser with modern features that incorrectly renders a few pages a small amount of the time over that insecure, outdated, and all around piece of crap from Microsoft any day of the week.
We've actually discussed this a lot on the Mozilla college reps mailing list, and we pretty much decided that it was a bad idea, since what use is it to get people using Firefox when they don't know they're using anything different? If they think they're still using Internet Explorer, they're not going to go home and download Firefox or even know what it is. All doing that would really do is get people confused when they click on a familiar icon and an unfamiliar icon appears. The best way is to just show people the new features. I converted my brother easily by him seeing me use it. That's the only way we're going to get and keep users.
OK I know there's probably no chance of this actually being read, but I've gotta throw this out there anyway.
I just rented the DVDs from my campus video store, and after watching only the first one (yes it's still the first one) I have to say I'm quite satisfied.
When I watched the movie, it was the first time I was really excited by it in a while. I used to watch it with every line of dialog memorized and in the usual geek mode, but this time I just sat back and watched it as a movie, and I got just as excited as I was the first time I saw it. Does it matter to me that Greedo (now barely) shoots first? No. Do I really care if Jabba shows up and confronts Han? Not much. Am I going to be pissed off to see Hayden "I can only express one emotion" Christensen in the Return of the Jedi? Of course, but that's another matter altogether. Point is, while it would be awesome to have the original films, this is what we've got. And if I remember correctly, the joke in 1997 was that he had changed so little, that the only reason he was releasing them again was to money grub. Now we're complaining that he's changed too much? Give me a break guys. Before I picked this up I was convinced I would never own those filthy DVDs and was going to bit torrent the laserdiscs instead. But I gave my inner fanboy a rest. Anyone else who's that upset over these movies should do the same. If it's still too much for you to handle, then fine. But if you find yourself sitting on the edge of your seat during the Death Star fight, it's not really important when Greedo shot, is it?
That's one of the reasons HD Television is catching on slowly, the estimated costs for a television broadcaster to switch to HD is $8-10 million. The difference here, of course, is the fact that people want HDTV since for the most part one would not be watching HDTV on a freeway in a moving vehicle.
Plus, are most people going to be interested in radio with better sound quality? Since the average person is satisfied with a 128kbps MP3, and not interested in newer, higher quality file formats, what makes anyone think that this will catch on? Same deal with SACD (aside from the fact that it's a proprietary format). If someone sees an SACD and a normal CD of the same album, they're going to buy the CD because it's cheaper (or hang the whole deal and download it).
Loom was great! The article on Maniac Mansion inspired me to break out my LucasArts Classic Adventures collection...7 floppies of classic point and click goodness! Unfortunately Maniac Mansion won't install, but other than that they run great with SCUMMvm.
I fully agree with you! I was only speaking in reference to the quality of Magic, which I've never played so I can't attest to how true it is. I am an avid player of D&D however and I can say that it is a very fun experience for everyone involved with our games. What I was saying is that all my Magic-playing friends have told me that Hasbro dumbed the game down almost to a 'Pokemon'-like state. I just thought I'd throw it out for discussion, but as I said I can neither confirm nor deny those allegations.
As I understand it (and this is only what my friends that play Magic say) it was only after Hasbro bought WotC that the game really started to get dumbed down and to go downhill.
Their point is this:
The first keyboard design got a patent, right? (I believe it would fall under #3,932,842, but I'm not completely sure.) But an HP keyboard is no different that a Microsoft keyboard, or any other kind of keyboard. It's all generally the same (which is what the bottom of that patent report says, I think.) What they're saying, however, is that their product is so much different than normal 'flat' keyboards, that it got its own patent.
Feel free to correct me if you find a different patent for the first keyboard, there were 61,000+ search results, I'm bound to have missed something. And I do realize that different 'ergonomic' keyboards have gotten their own patents.
Well while we're on the subject of fake cityscapes...
On NBC's Dateline, the fake cityscape in their window actually includes the NBC building where the show's filmed.
I don't know about calling it journalism...
Sure, Slashdot is definately where I get the (vast) majority of tech news, but all that news is just harvested from other sites, isn't it? Slashdot is to the New York times as Readers Digest is to magazines. (Sort of, you get what I mean)
On a side note, I'm going to concur with just about everyone else in saying that calling Slashdot a Blog is definately a misuse of the term. It's not someone's journal. That's a Blog.
OK well actually to tell the truth, I only changed my Gnutella settings yesterday after I read this article. Must've been some wave of paranoia, because I checked and realized that I know exactly which folder I'm sharing anyway, and there was no reason to change the upload slots to 0. So to make a long story short, I'm changing them back. And everyone lived happily ever after.
I always went in (when I used Napster and now Gnutella) and changed the upload slots to 0. As paranoid as this may sound, I don't like people being able to get into my files, even if it is just stuff I downloaded from other people.
We downloaded some games on the computers at school. (sans teacher permission of course..) Eventually the hard drives started getting full and we had trouble logging on. The tech guys (who absolutely hate us now and talked about how they wanted to "break our [expletive deleted]ing necks" Right in front of us too...) took about 3 days to go to all the computers and clear them out. So basically if we were to ask for a game night they'd probably castrate us on the spot.
Good thing school's almost out and I can play Jedi Outcast at home whenever I want..
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How much are they selling this for? First of all, paying money for a boxed version of software I can get for free online seems rather silly. They are offering up a headset though, though I suspect it's probably not of the highest quality. What exactly are you paying for, and how much is it going to cost? While this might raise awareness about the service, I fail to see how it's anything more than a money grab by eBay.
This is not the first time PayPal screwed over Lowtax. You used to be able to register for the Awful Forums with PayPal (in case you don't know, the Awful Forums cost a one time $10 to join, unless you get banned and have to pay again), but they pulled out on him, claiming the forums were "inappropriate content" and left Lowtax owed a great deal of money.
I think that is how the story goes, goons or others, feel free to correct me.
Oh I know it'd be a terrible idea, but since when has that stopped anybody? Episode VII - Lucas Smells Green Episode VIII - Attack of the Lame New Characters and Unnecessary Special Effects Episode IX - Just Let it Die At any rate, I'm going to see this third one, if only to see how the story wraps up And I'm a rabid fanboy.
First I see "going to CVS" in someone's away message and think, "How can you go to CVS...oh the drug store." /. reporting on a drug store?.....oh the code thing. Right."
Now, I see E17 available at CVS and I think, "Why is
Bottom line: acronyms suck. WTF.
I'm convinced the new "FIRST POST!!!!!1111" comment is "SLASHDOT DOESN'T RENDER RIGHT IN FIREFOX!!!!!!" Seriously I've been using Firefox for several months now, check Slashdot multiple times a day (because I'm a huge loser with too much time, let's just get that one out of the way), and I've had /. render incorrectly ONCE. Out of the hundreds of times I've loaded this page, that's a percentage I can deal with. I would choose a fast, secure browser with modern features that incorrectly renders a few pages a small amount of the time over that insecure, outdated, and all around piece of crap from Microsoft any day of the week.
And who modded this informative?
We've actually discussed this a lot on the Mozilla college reps mailing list, and we pretty much decided that it was a bad idea, since what use is it to get people using Firefox when they don't know they're using anything different? If they think they're still using Internet Explorer, they're not going to go home and download Firefox or even know what it is. All doing that would really do is get people confused when they click on a familiar icon and an unfamiliar icon appears. The best way is to just show people the new features. I converted my brother easily by him seeing me use it. That's the only way we're going to get and keep users.
OK I know there's probably no chance of this actually being read, but I've gotta throw this out there anyway. I just rented the DVDs from my campus video store, and after watching only the first one (yes it's still the first one) I have to say I'm quite satisfied. When I watched the movie, it was the first time I was really excited by it in a while. I used to watch it with every line of dialog memorized and in the usual geek mode, but this time I just sat back and watched it as a movie, and I got just as excited as I was the first time I saw it. Does it matter to me that Greedo (now barely) shoots first? No. Do I really care if Jabba shows up and confronts Han? Not much. Am I going to be pissed off to see Hayden "I can only express one emotion" Christensen in the Return of the Jedi? Of course, but that's another matter altogether. Point is, while it would be awesome to have the original films, this is what we've got. And if I remember correctly, the joke in 1997 was that he had changed so little, that the only reason he was releasing them again was to money grub. Now we're complaining that he's changed too much? Give me a break guys. Before I picked this up I was convinced I would never own those filthy DVDs and was going to bit torrent the laserdiscs instead. But I gave my inner fanboy a rest. Anyone else who's that upset over these movies should do the same. If it's still too much for you to handle, then fine. But if you find yourself sitting on the edge of your seat during the Death Star fight, it's not really important when Greedo shot, is it?
Check out his merch site, he's got a DVD for sale... Here
That's one of the reasons HD Television is catching on slowly, the estimated costs for a television broadcaster to switch to HD is $8-10 million. The difference here, of course, is the fact that people want HDTV since for the most part one would not be watching HDTV on a freeway in a moving vehicle. Plus, are most people going to be interested in radio with better sound quality? Since the average person is satisfied with a 128kbps MP3, and not interested in newer, higher quality file formats, what makes anyone think that this will catch on? Same deal with SACD (aside from the fact that it's a proprietary format). If someone sees an SACD and a normal CD of the same album, they're going to buy the CD because it's cheaper (or hang the whole deal and download it).
Loom was great! The article on Maniac Mansion inspired me to break out my LucasArts Classic Adventures collection...7 floppies of classic point and click goodness! Unfortunately Maniac Mansion won't install, but other than that they run great with SCUMMvm.
I fully agree with you! I was only speaking in reference to the quality of Magic, which I've never played so I can't attest to how true it is. I am an avid player of D&D however and I can say that it is a very fun experience for everyone involved with our games. What I was saying is that all my Magic-playing friends have told me that Hasbro dumbed the game down almost to a 'Pokemon'-like state. I just thought I'd throw it out for discussion, but as I said I can neither confirm nor deny those allegations.
As I understand it (and this is only what my friends that play Magic say) it was only after Hasbro bought WotC that the game really started to get dumbed down and to go downhill.
Their point is this:
The first keyboard design got a patent, right? (I believe it would fall under #3,932,842, but I'm not completely sure.) But an HP keyboard is no different that a Microsoft keyboard, or any other kind of keyboard. It's all generally the same (which is what the bottom of that patent report says, I think.) What they're saying, however, is that their product is so much different than normal 'flat' keyboards, that it got its own patent.
Feel free to correct me if you find a different patent for the first keyboard, there were 61,000+ search results, I'm bound to have missed something. And I do realize that different 'ergonomic' keyboards have gotten their own patents.
Well while we're on the subject of fake cityscapes...
On NBC's Dateline, the fake cityscape in their window actually includes the NBC building where the show's filmed.
It is quite for real, here's a link: Contest Info
I don't know about calling it journalism... Sure, Slashdot is definately where I get the (vast) majority of tech news, but all that news is just harvested from other sites, isn't it? Slashdot is to the New York times as Readers Digest is to magazines. (Sort of, you get what I mean) On a side note, I'm going to concur with just about everyone else in saying that calling Slashdot a Blog is definately a misuse of the term. It's not someone's journal. That's a Blog.
OK well actually to tell the truth, I only changed my Gnutella settings yesterday after I read this article. Must've been some wave of paranoia, because I checked and realized that I know exactly which folder I'm sharing anyway, and there was no reason to change the upload slots to 0. So to make a long story short, I'm changing them back. And everyone lived happily ever after.
I always went in (when I used Napster and now Gnutella) and changed the upload slots to 0. As paranoid as this may sound, I don't like people being able to get into my files, even if it is just stuff I downloaded from other people.
We downloaded some games on the computers at school. (sans teacher permission of course..) Eventually the hard drives started getting full and we had trouble logging on. The tech guys (who absolutely hate us now and talked about how they wanted to "break our [expletive deleted]ing necks" Right in front of us too...) took about 3 days to go to all the computers and clear them out. So basically if we were to ask for a game night they'd probably castrate us on the spot. Good thing school's almost out and I can play Jedi Outcast at home whenever I want..