Wait - there are two cases of someone building and selling a home with a STHT?
I'm trying to figure the odds of demand meeting supply on just one. How many people go looking for homes that specifically have a Star Trek themed home theater? How big does the pool of buyers need to be before you get at least one, in your area, that falls into that category? The odds seem pretty slim that even one is going to come thru the door. That's what gets me...all that work with the expectation that someone is going to fit the profile as buyer? We're not talking about an extra bathroom, after all.
The guy has been trying to sell this house for the last year. I mean, come on - I don't slight the guy for building such a 'tribute' - it had to be fun. But then putting the house on the market and expecting someone to welcome such an addition? That just doesn't make sense.
"I think it is a little ignorant blaming this on the bush administration."
You may have missed the irony behind the entire comment. Bush isn't smart enough to pull something like this off. Everyone knows that - blaming him for something he isn't capable of doing is sarcasm at it's best. Contempt conveyed!:)
"Be part of the solution not the problem."
And if that doesn't work out, try being a list mom instead:)
The signal to noise ratio for IM is no better/worse than email - after all, they both come from the same source. And as you confirm, "solidarity & business as usual", w/SMS, all that 'noise' functions like a ping or carrier, working to generate current unspoken status such as mood, doubt...all those nuanced indicators common to any form of group interaction. Even without visual clues such as body language.
"let's not romanticize it" - your curmudgeoned-tainted label, not mine:) I'd be more inclined to use one of the most chilling verbs around...change. No one likes change, but those who at least try to make it work for them are less apt to be run over when merging with the future.
"When they finally get a real job they'll find that email is MUCH more pervasive than the other stuff."
Eh? Is there no one under 30 in your office?
The country where I live/work has the highest concentration of English speakers in the world. This should make it some kind of reliable reference on the topic of modern communication. The office staffers all use email sure, but the youngsters read it when they feel like it, and compose/send when they need to - however, IM, by far, is what they really use to communicate. And I mean constantly. Partly because most can't feel like they appear to be working if they have a cellphone in their ear. Oh, they're busy communicating with their cells alright - using SMS. But that's one-on-one, with a restrictively tiny keyboard. IM is groups. Meta-groups from other countries and small focus groups on different floors. Incessant, rapid chatter that makes no noise other than the clicks from the keyboard. Multiple-mind dumps that dart and flash like hungry steelhead in clear, fast moving coldddddduh water.
Go ahead - send one of them an email. See how long it takes before they read it, much less respond. Maybe if you call them on their cell. No answer? Send an SMS. Still no reaction? If you want a reply now, you're going to have to learn how to swim out where the current runs fast, with the young schools, because old school is floating down river with the current, whether we realize it, like it, or not.
Where do I live/work? That would be southern China...
"is this a sign that they are willing to directly compete with the people they courted to join?"
Business stopped being that simple, oh...like maybe 1 or 2 thousand years ago.
Does the phrase 'embrace and extend*' ring a tiny bell?
No? Try looking at it this way. MS constantly wages FUD. Always - frequently with whatever legal club happens to be within easy reach. Google, on the other hand does things in a rather novel manner (TIC) via the use of something called 'logic'. It's a more mature strategy (and I'm quoting Dave W. here). It involves seduction, not violence. Guess which 'tactic' history will smile on.
"I don't consider it so much "paying for Slashdot" as sending a little financial support to the people that keep a site I find useful...and gives them some idea of the value which I place on their product."
Nice try - that snow job almost worked. 'product'...? eh?
The 'product' here is aggregated stuff that flows in _after_ it has been placed online elsewhere - and you enjoy paying for dated content? To the extent you compare it to paying a musician directly? Hello - you're paying for nothing here, except a platform. The original authors get zip from you.
You're obviously a shill (with suspiciously well timed and pre-packaged comments) shoveling a promotional agenda - good luck with that:)
If these things aren't any more accurate than radar guns, we can expect a shockingly high rate of mistakenly stalled cars littering the route of some otherwise dull high-speed chases:)
And then there's the guy that shapes the body of his car into a reflector - that focuses the energy into a nice tight beam right back at the head of the chump driving the pursuit vehicle. fvfvfvqkwazzappppp.... POP!
Again, specifically 'Eastern' Prussia [details above]... when I think of 'prussian', I tend to think back to 'eastern prussian', sorry to confuse you:)
I, for one, welcome our new Inner Swarm Overlord...
Would it be redundant to say 'slashdot swarm effect?
But seriously --- hunger, fright, spawning, yawning, roosting, cheering, migrating, hibernating, buying lotto tickets...you can't have a 'crowd' effect without a crowd, so discovering there is such a thing seems a bit like finding a bullet hole and then inventing the gun. All sounds a bit medieval if you ask me.
I just want to know where the on/off switch is so I can control it...
I can recall when vending machines in Japan sold cigarettes, coffee, beer, condoms & pantyhose...all out of the same machine.
As Slim would say "That's a goddamn 3 day vacation in Las Vegas".
Some of the beer machines would power off at a certain time to try to discourage street drunks.
When asked what kept under age drinkers from using the beer vending machines, the locals would reply "well, they just don't..."
Certain enterprising business men would pay the local high school girls for used underwear. Then they would shrinkwrap them, along with a signed Polaroid and put them into those arcade 'claw' machines. Had a thriving business until the neighborhood moms began wondering why their daughters were always asking for new Hello Kitty undies. The moms went to the cops. The cops were stumped, at first, as they had a hard time finding a specific law on the books that the pre-owned-panty vendors were breaking.
Finally, the cops decided to apply an antiques law that says you have to be licensed accordingly for the sale of certain 'used' or aged goods. No permit to sell antiques? Come with us...you're under arrest - and don't forget the evidence:)
It may sound like 'cob' (as in 'cost') to you when you or your Iowan native family/friends say it, but to West-coasters like me, it sounds like 'cab' (as in 'cat'):)
It was WWII, and Germany hadn't been split up yet - all the 18 yr. old English-speaking strutters came out of East Prussia - the Russian talent was busy building horse-drawn mortars.
And when they recruited the guy, they had no idea what he would bring in.
'he was also recruited and trained by the GRU, Russia's largest intelligence agency'
When you're an English-speaking, baseball-playing, corn-on-the cab chewing, native-Iowan, those young Prussian female recruiting babes, I mean 'agents', are pretty hard to resist.
They should be the ones getting the honors, actually...
When I moved into an apartment in Shenzhen, the landlord had already initiated internet service. Problem was, it was the entry-level package, and yes, it was slow. If I wanted speed, I had to wait until I went into the office.
All I had to do was contact China Telecom and ask to move up to the next tier. Throughput was doubled by the afternoon. And my billing dropped by 30% per year. Much better...
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Wait - there are two cases of someone building and selling a home with a STHT?
I'm trying to figure the odds of demand meeting supply on just one. How many people go looking for homes that specifically have a Star Trek themed home theater? How big does the pool of buyers need to be before you get at least one, in your area, that falls into that category? The odds seem pretty slim that even one is going to come thru the door. That's what gets me...all that work with the expectation that someone is going to fit the profile as buyer? We're not talking about an extra bathroom, after all.
The guy has been trying to sell this house for the last year. I mean, come on - I don't slight the guy for building such a 'tribute' - it had to be fun. But then putting the house on the market and expecting someone to welcome such an addition? That just doesn't make sense.
"I think it is a little ignorant blaming this on the bush administration."
:)
"Be part of the solution not the problem."
:)
You may have missed the irony behind the entire comment. Bush isn't smart enough to pull something like this off. Everyone knows that - blaming him for something he isn't capable of doing is sarcasm at it's best. Contempt conveyed!
And if that doesn't work out, try being a list mom instead
The signal to noise ratio for IM is no better/worse than email - after all, they both come from the same source. And as you confirm, "solidarity & business as usual", w/SMS, all that 'noise' functions like a ping or carrier, working to generate current unspoken status such as mood, doubt...all those nuanced indicators common to any form of group interaction. Even without visual clues such as body language.
:) I'd be more inclined to use one of the most chilling verbs around...change. No one likes change, but those who at least try to make it work for them are less apt to be run over when merging with the future.
"let's not romanticize it" - your curmudgeoned-tainted label, not mine
The trick to IM, apparently, is the shorthand. But yeah, the distraction from IM is a pain.
"When they finally get a real job they'll find that email is MUCH more pervasive than the other stuff."
Eh? Is there no one under 30 in your office?
The country where I live/work has the highest concentration of English speakers in the world. This should make it some kind of reliable reference on the topic of modern communication. The office staffers all use email sure, but the youngsters read it when they feel like it, and compose/send when they need to - however, IM, by far, is what they really use to communicate. And I mean constantly. Partly because most can't feel like they appear to be working if they have a cellphone in their ear. Oh, they're busy communicating with their cells alright - using SMS. But that's one-on-one, with a restrictively tiny keyboard. IM is groups. Meta-groups from other countries and small focus groups on different floors. Incessant, rapid chatter that makes no noise other than the clicks from the keyboard. Multiple-mind dumps that dart and flash like hungry steelhead in clear, fast moving coldddddduh water.
Go ahead - send one of them an email. See how long it takes before they read it, much less respond. Maybe if you call them on their cell. No answer? Send an SMS. Still no reaction? If you want a reply now, you're going to have to learn how to swim out where the current runs fast, with the young schools, because old school is floating down river with the current, whether we realize it, like it, or not.
Where do I live/work? That would be southern China...
I can have my own copy of the Library o' Congress and let them worry about backup :)
"is this a sign that they are willing to directly compete with the people they courted to join?"
Business stopped being that simple, oh...like maybe 1 or 2 thousand years ago.
Does the phrase 'embrace and extend*' ring a tiny bell?
No? Try looking at it this way. MS constantly wages FUD. Always - frequently with whatever legal club happens to be within easy reach. Google, on the other hand does things in a rather novel manner (TIC) via the use of something called 'logic'. It's a more mature strategy (and I'm quoting Dave W. here). It involves seduction, not violence. Guess which 'tactic' history will smile on.
* The original - not the MS version.
"I don't consider it so much "paying for Slashdot" as sending a little financial support to the people that keep a site I find useful...and gives them some idea of the value which I place on their product."
...? eh?
:)
Nice try - that snow job almost worked. 'product'
The 'product' here is aggregated stuff that flows in _after_ it has been placed online elsewhere - and you enjoy paying for dated content? To the extent you compare it to paying a musician directly? Hello - you're paying for nothing here, except a platform. The original authors get zip from you.
You're obviously a shill (with suspiciously well timed and pre-packaged comments) shoveling a promotional agenda - good luck with that
'ow can you 'ave inny puddin, if youz don ea'chore meat??!!
How about a face-plant on one big ass table?
It would be the collective, or group, overlord. Sort of the all-4-1 & 1-4-all approach to the mob-acting-as-one big...really big...overlord.
Are you with us?
If these things aren't any more accurate than radar guns, we can expect a shockingly high rate of mistakenly stalled cars littering the route of some otherwise dull high-speed chases :)
And then there's the guy that shapes the body of his car into a reflector - that focuses the energy into a nice tight beam right back at the head of the chump driving the pursuit vehicle. fvfvfvqkwazzappppp.... POP!
"OK, what if everyone, as a group, decided not to act as a group."
Exactly... Ok if I quote you? As a group, I mean.
Now, everybody don't move - I want a picture of this one. Is everybody not ready?
"Are you sure you meant Prussian?
:)
Again, specifically 'Eastern' Prussia [details above]... when I think of 'prussian', I tend to think back to 'eastern prussian', sorry to confuse you
I, for one, welcome our new Inner Swarm Overlord...
Would it be redundant to say 'slashdot swarm effect?
But seriously --- hunger, fright, spawning, yawning, roosting, cheering, migrating, hibernating, buying lotto tickets...you can't have a 'crowd' effect without a crowd, so discovering there is such a thing seems a bit like finding a bullet hole and then inventing the gun. All sounds a bit medieval if you ask me.
I just want to know where the on/off switch is so I can control it...
I can recall when vending machines in Japan sold cigarettes, coffee, beer, condoms & pantyhose...all out of the same machine. As Slim would say "That's a goddamn 3 day vacation in Las Vegas".
:)
Some of the beer machines would power off at a certain time to try to discourage street drunks.
When asked what kept under age drinkers from using the beer vending machines, the locals would reply "well, they just don't..."
Certain enterprising business men would pay the local high school girls for used underwear. Then they would shrinkwrap them, along with a signed Polaroid and put them into those arcade 'claw' machines. Had a thriving business until the neighborhood moms began wondering why their daughters were always asking for new Hello Kitty undies. The moms went to the cops. The cops were stumped, at first, as they had a hard time finding a specific law on the books that the pre-owned-panty vendors were breaking.
Finally, the cops decided to apply an antiques law that says you have to be licensed accordingly for the sale of certain 'used' or aged goods. No permit to sell antiques? Come with us...you're under arrest - and don't forget the evidence
...flew right over your head, I guess :)
:)
Let me s'plain...
It may sound like 'cob' (as in 'cost') to you when you or your Iowan native family/friends say it, but to West-coasters like me, it sounds like 'cab' (as in 'cat')
"then surely the results would have gone to the reich?
:)
I'm certain they were talented girls and ready to go either way
'"A federal judge Monday ordered the White House to preserve copies of all its e-mails...'
That'll work...
It was WWII, and Germany hadn't been split up yet - all the 18 yr. old English-speaking strutters came out of East Prussia - the Russian talent was busy building horse-drawn mortars.
And when they recruited the guy, they had no idea what he would bring in.
'he was also recruited and trained by the GRU, Russia's largest intelligence agency'
When you're an English-speaking, baseball-playing, corn-on-the cab chewing, native-Iowan, those young Prussian female recruiting babes, I mean 'agents', are pretty hard to resist.
They should be the ones getting the honors, actually...
Spoils of war, by any other name...
Remember, some days you eat the Bear and some days the Bear eats you. No precedent in this case...by far.
When I moved into an apartment in Shenzhen, the landlord had already initiated internet service. Problem was, it was the entry-level package, and yes, it was slow. If I wanted speed, I had to wait until I went into the office.
All I had to do was contact China Telecom and ask to move up to the next tier. Throughput was doubled by the afternoon. And my billing dropped by 30% per year. Much better...
Major! There's something else.
Six men...wearing US issue Army boots.
They came in from the west and followed the Russian hacker gang out to the south.
We move! 5 meter spread...no sound!
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that setting up inside China was bound to be a bit of a bad move...
Might as well hang out a sign... ---> R U S S I A N -- B O T N E T -- M A S T E R S -- H E R E ! ! !