I've seen only 1/2 an episode of survivor and no other reality tv shows for one simple reason...they suck. Go ahead and watch some other people live their lives instead of living yours...it's easier that way.
What an ignorant statement. Shows such as Survivor are game shows. Primetime dramas are more about watching somebody's life. People watch West Wing to see life in the White House, ER to see how the stress of being an emergency doctor affects the characters' lives, or The Practice for a glimpse at trials and their toll on victims and lawyers. At least reality contestants aren't just actors.
And if an extra hour a week of TV a week has that big of an effect on your life...
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...and no more useful functions. There are many times when I'm viewing a page and I need to check something (a detailed image of something I'm buying, a help box or explantion, etc) without disrupting the current page.
Telephones are useful items that get abused. Would you fight back against telemarketing by not ever giving out your number anywhere? That defeats the whole purpose of the phone. Should we not drive cars because people use them as getaway vehicles, or stop riding buses because terrorists blow them up?
There is a point where you need to stop sheltering yourself from the world and find a different way to fight or tolerate abuse of useful resources.
I think the HDTV problem will take care of itself. Ten years ago most people weren't online. Why pay to go online if no one you know has e-mail or instant messenging? Yet now, somehow mostly everyone is online.
A possibility is that people will slowly buy new HDTVs when their old analog sets need to be replaced. Might as well be prepared for the future and jump the wagon now instead of buying a second set later, right?
Plenty of people share lossless music in Shorten (SHN) files. Read it about it here. Songs can be compressed to about 1/2 to 2/3 of the size of the WAV -- and for a perfect copy, it's well worth the not-too-significant download on a broadband connection.
Smashing Pumpkins bootlegs are illegal (I think), but there are many bands that encourage this (Dave Matthews Band, Phish, Grateful Dead, and hundreds more) and I had no problems running a server at my school last year, sucking up about 4TB of bandwidth during the school year. If you keep it legal (not too hard), schools generally don't have much of a problem -- if they do, they should be capping people.
I know the head buyer for my area's TW HQ, and a couple weeks ago he mentioned this, adding that the models they've narrowed it down to will mean about $5 a month to subscribers. Not too shabby at all, though I'd expect them to charge more like $10 because a lot of people would probably pay it.
Microsoft bashing is one of the main topics Slashdot exists to serve.
I don't entirely believe that, but if it is, I think the users posting swayed it that way. I'm a Windows user (tried Linux three times, now thinking of a Mac), and I come here to read interesting news about science and computing, as well as people's thoughts on it. There is no reason to alienate a significant portion of the readers. It's one thing if other users complain about Windows, but if the moderators -- the people that run the site -- start to mod up anti-Windows jokes and mod-down Windows-supportive comments, well that doesn't speak too highly of Slashdot as a dignified news/discussion source.
You're absolutely right. WinXP never crashes on me, and is very capable to withstanding unstable programs or memory hogs. And I think it looks just as good as OS X. The bug-ridden, unstable days of Windows are over, yet people still continue to bash. Maybe you should give it a shot first.
You'll be wearing your Slave Labor Nikes, sweating under a Third World Vest, listening to Everqueer or Fratboy Slim, your hair styled stupidly with gasoline and aborted pig placentas, trying to choke down a Double Meat Fuck Splattered Cow Testicles On The Slaughterhouse Floor Pus Coagulated Lactacious Secretion Yellow Dye #2 Deluxe.
I greatly prefer the DX version because of the extra features; saving games, scores and profiles; and the graphics are very, very nice. Besides, I already had the original GB Tetris (who didn't?!) and was looking for a nice upgrade since I played it so much.
All I can find is the score. It's 1,721,262... It's possibly over 700 lines
I have a score of just over a million, so that must be my 411. I recall getting an insane amount of Tetris, so it looks like you did indeed get 700. Impressive.
And yes, the game does stop getting faster at either 20 or 30.
When I bought Tetris DX for GameBoy Color, the store clerk chuckled and asked me why in the world I was paying $30 for Tetris when I could have any number of action games. I asked him how many of those types of games he played for more than a year, and he couldn't answer me. Tetris just keeps on going.
What's everyone best game? The scoring varies too much, so just give your number of lines and the platform.
Mine is 411 on Tetris DX for Game Boy Color.
I'm not even into electronic music and I can't get enough of these guys. Check out their latest, "Come With Us" for great dancing beats, or "Dig Your Own Hole" for much deeper, well-written journeys. It's all electronic, but it's not just simple, droning beats; there are a lot of carefully-crafted sounds. It's mostly intrumental with a couple vocal tracks on each album. They also put on the best live performance I've ever seen (out of about 40 shows). I really think listening to them will add a lot to your knowledge of the genre and maybe help you persue your own music.
SW is different than C&H. Lucas has gotten worse and worse at making more SW movies, while Watterson never got worse at making C&H strips. He quit before it got bad, which really preserved the integrity of the strip. He also prevented any marketting (plush dolls, lunchboxes, etc), and the result is being considered one of the great comics of all time. If Lucas keeps making worse movies, it won't be seen the same light in 20 years; if he hands it off to someone else, it loses a bit of magic because it's no longer one man's dream, and it's unlikely another person can keep the same spirit in the series. Lucas' only two choices are to stop now, or to make good movies.
If everyone used the same network, it would be extremely difficult to find a new unique screen name. We'd all have to be either our full name (not anonymous) or Runner2949324329 (hard to remember). And what about people currently on different networks with the same name? Who gets to keep it?
Suppose a seller sells $1000 worth of goods per month which he paid $500 for to begin with (pretty average profit rate on Ebay). He will make $500/month, or $12,000 per year. Who can live off of $12,000/year as their full time job? I sell a small amount of goods on ebay, and just keeping track of 20 auctions at once is quite a handful; I could imagine it eating up 30-40 hours per week, which wouldn't leave any time for a second job.
Unless it's one of my favorite bands and I'm sure I'll like it, I usually download it first and decide if it's worth the money. Strangely enough, this method as led me to buy more albums than it has led me to avoid.
Having someone completely lose their data more or less just pisses them off. Where I work, somebody with too many priviledges deleted hundreds of hours of video from the main server. Was it backed up? Of course not. Did they implement a back up solution? Not yet. But the thing is, the video still existed on the original tapes. Many workers had to spend hours and hours reconverting all of the movies. I think that will leave a bigger impression on them than losing a file or fearing that they will lose everything.
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And if an extra hour a week of TV a week has that big of an effect on your life...
Telephones are useful items that get abused. Would you fight back against telemarketing by not ever giving out your number anywhere? That defeats the whole purpose of the phone. Should we not drive cars because people use them as getaway vehicles, or stop riding buses because terrorists blow them up?
There is a point where you need to stop sheltering yourself from the world and find a different way to fight or tolerate abuse of useful resources.
I think the HDTV problem will take care of itself. Ten years ago most people weren't online. Why pay to go online if no one you know has e-mail or instant messenging? Yet now, somehow mostly everyone is online. A possibility is that people will slowly buy new HDTVs when their old analog sets need to be replaced. Might as well be prepared for the future and jump the wagon now instead of buying a second set later, right?
Plenty of people share lossless music in Shorten (SHN) files. Read it about it here. Songs can be compressed to about 1/2 to 2/3 of the size of the WAV -- and for a perfect copy, it's well worth the not-too-significant download on a broadband connection. Smashing Pumpkins bootlegs are illegal (I think), but there are many bands that encourage this (Dave Matthews Band, Phish, Grateful Dead, and hundreds more) and I had no problems running a server at my school last year, sucking up about 4TB of bandwidth during the school year. If you keep it legal (not too hard), schools generally don't have much of a problem -- if they do, they should be capping people.
I know the head buyer for my area's TW HQ, and a couple weeks ago he mentioned this, adding that the models they've narrowed it down to will mean about $5 a month to subscribers. Not too shabby at all, though I'd expect them to charge more like $10 because a lot of people would probably pay it.
Seriously, I think somebody makes this stuff up just to incite Slashdot riots.
You're absolutely right. WinXP never crashes on me, and is very capable to withstanding unstable programs or memory hogs. And I think it looks just as good as OS X. The bug-ridden, unstable days of Windows are over, yet people still continue to bash. Maybe you should give it a shot first.
I greatly prefer the DX version because of the extra features; saving games, scores and profiles; and the graphics are very, very nice. Besides, I already had the original GB Tetris (who didn't?!) and was looking for a nice upgrade since I played it so much.
And yes, the game does stop getting faster at either 20 or 30.
When I bought Tetris DX for GameBoy Color, the store clerk chuckled and asked me why in the world I was paying $30 for Tetris when I could have any number of action games. I asked him how many of those types of games he played for more than a year, and he couldn't answer me. Tetris just keeps on going.
What's everyone best game? The scoring varies too much, so just give your number of lines and the platform. Mine is 411 on Tetris DX for Game Boy Color.
I'm not even into electronic music and I can't get enough of these guys. Check out their latest, "Come With Us" for great dancing beats, or "Dig Your Own Hole" for much deeper, well-written journeys. It's all electronic, but it's not just simple, droning beats; there are a lot of carefully-crafted sounds. It's mostly intrumental with a couple vocal tracks on each album. They also put on the best live performance I've ever seen (out of about 40 shows). I really think listening to them will add a lot to your knowledge of the genre and maybe help you persue your own music.
SW is different than C&H. Lucas has gotten worse and worse at making more SW movies, while Watterson never got worse at making C&H strips. He quit before it got bad, which really preserved the integrity of the strip. He also prevented any marketting (plush dolls, lunchboxes, etc), and the result is being considered one of the great comics of all time. If Lucas keeps making worse movies, it won't be seen the same light in 20 years; if he hands it off to someone else, it loses a bit of magic because it's no longer one man's dream, and it's unlikely another person can keep the same spirit in the series. Lucas' only two choices are to stop now, or to make good movies.
If everyone used the same network, it would be extremely difficult to find a new unique screen name. We'd all have to be either our full name (not anonymous) or Runner2949324329 (hard to remember). And what about people currently on different networks with the same name? Who gets to keep it?
Back to the Future is Robert Zemeckis' film, not Spielberg's.
Suppose a seller sells $1000 worth of goods per month which he paid $500 for to begin with (pretty average profit rate on Ebay). He will make $500/month, or $12,000 per year. Who can live off of $12,000/year as their full time job? I sell a small amount of goods on ebay, and just keeping track of 20 auctions at once is quite a handful; I could imagine it eating up 30-40 hours per week, which wouldn't leave any time for a second job.
Unless it's one of my favorite bands and I'm sure I'll like it, I usually download it first and decide if it's worth the money. Strangely enough, this method as led me to buy more albums than it has led me to avoid.
Having someone completely lose their data more or less just pisses them off. Where I work, somebody with too many priviledges deleted hundreds of hours of video from the main server. Was it backed up? Of course not. Did they implement a back up solution? Not yet. But the thing is, the video still existed on the original tapes. Many workers had to spend hours and hours reconverting all of the movies. I think that will leave a bigger impression on them than losing a file or fearing that they will lose everything.