If only AOL expanded their instant messenger service. Sure you can type and they can type back, but what if you could actually hear the person you were chatting with? Maybe this could even be done in "Real Time." We could come up with a device so you could walk around the room and talk at the same time without tricky networking setup. We could take everyone's name and give it a number and put them in a big book so that if you wanted to chat with someone and didn't know their number you could look it up. It would even have their address!
The situation regarding "new" technology is this country is atrocious. Parent is correct; I don't care what they say, I bought it, I own it.
Think if this sort of a mindset was applied to the automotive industry. Once sold, you wouldn't be able to open your hood. Work on you car? Better get a lawyer ready. Only, say Ford, parts would be allowed as replacements and your car could only be serviced by a Ford dealer.
Pretty scary, eh? It's very likely that becomes the case before long.
Master of Magic is one of my all time favorite games. I feel that a truly good game should be complicated. It adds to the replayability. Parent is right about Diablo. Once you're done, why go on? I got bored midway through act III and haven't touched it since.
I still play MoM. I still play Jagged Alliance 2 (my favorite game). Who cares what it looks like as long as it plays well?
No, you get scurvy, which believe it or not has happened. Regions where there hadn't been a reported case of scurvy in decades get thrown off because some stupid college kid tries the Ramen diet.
I don't know about this. Let's say my group of engineers comes up with a wonderful new idea that gets pattented, implemented and makes my company millions of dollars. Think we are going to be millionaires? Of course not.
I guess I've never gotten the left hand on the mouse. I'm left handed and I use my right hand for the mouse. I can type better with my left and most of the quick keyboard short cuts are on the left side (ctrl-c, ctrl-v, etc).
So my question is, lefties: which is your mouse hand?
Parent is very very true. At my school they entice top incoming engineering students with a variety of scholarships. But they want you to join the honors program...not a problem, except the classes are far more demanding than the regular version and they only give slightly higher grades than the non-honor classes. End result: the majority of engineering students soon lose their GPA based scholarships.
I'm all for space exploration. Real space exploration. The problem is that NASA can't get the funding for all the good stuff so they resort to wasting money to justify their own existence. Seriously folks it's a complete and total waste.
International Space Station? Completely useless, and expensive at that. Come to think of it, NASA doesn't do anything cheap (not that I necessarily want to be on a cheap space shuttle).
NASA needs to stop wasting money on crappy little projects and ant-colonies and do something worthwhile. Then maybe it gets a bit more funding.
I too was blaming this on my university network. Pretty damn bad. My firewall is blocking requests (mostly from Europe, but lots of Asia too) at an amazing rate. I can barely read my logs fast enough.
That's what I paid for my completely legal copy of Windows XP Pro. It even has a nice hologram that reads tells me it's unlicensed. Don't worry--it's all legal and good.
Yippee for Microsoft Campus Agreement (MSCA). Best $5 I've ever spent ($10 if you include the $5 copy of Office I bought).
I worked at Blockbuster (for a short period of time, I admit) and nothing was more painful than making people pay late fees. What people don't understand is that without late fees Blockbuster doesn't make any money. Which means your rental fees would go up.
Second, DO NOT LOSE YOUR MOVIE!!! I cannot stress this enough. Realize that when you lose it you will be expected (forced) to pay well in excess of $100. Why do they do this? This part is no scam, I assure you. It's what Blockbuster actually has to pay to purchase the movies. Remember the FBI warning at the begining of the movie saying how you can't show or distribute the movie for profit? Blockbuster can, and they had to pay for that right.
Seriously folks, it's not that hard to turn in late movies. Just do it. Or squirm out of late fees, but realize you can only do that a couple times before you will have to switch stores (brands actually--Blockbuster will do a check on you to see if you have late fees at other locations).
I agree. Where has math gotten us? Clearly we know nothing about the world we live in. We are completely ignorant to the forces around us and yet we destroy forest after forest producing thick tomes to celebrate our theories on things that we have no clue about. Waste of time if you ask me.
I think we should eschew math entirely and try to come to a deeper understanding of the universe at an emotional level. Science could be easily reduced to sitting in a circle expressing how we feel about issues. "The ball keeps falling? That makes me sad!"
I agree. They have the right to do pursue their business model as they see fit.
But they shouldn't attempt to change laws to keep their business model afloat.
The extreme of people trying to work inefficient or outdated business models is the airline industry. The ticket pricing is absolutely absurd with little rationality, service terrible, and the companies riddled with inefficencies. Have you tried to fly recently? It's atrocious. And yet the government continues to bail out the airline industry. And yes, they were in trouble far before 9/11.
You are welcome to pursue any business model you choose. But there comes a time when companies have to say "Maybe there is a better way of doing this" rather than trying to point a finger and asking for government help.
This is very true. I've been told my calling card has resulted in call id results from Denver, Omaha, Chicago and more--obviously wherever I got routed through. Kinda freaky for the person on the other end of the line (Who do I know in Denver?!).
I screen calls like most people do: if it doesn't show up on the caller id, I don't pick up. If it is important the person will leave a message and I can pick up. Telemarketers don't get through.
When I was in high school one of my friends had caller id blocking (her mother was a psychiatrist). Yeah, she couldn't get any one to ever pick up for her. That's what happens when you don't show up on caller id.
That's basically what my university does. Uploads are capped (except to certain schools on...dear lord--mental block...you know what I mean...the network connecting many major universities and some companies...why can't I remember the name...anyway) except on campus computers (which are further subdivided of course).
The bandwidth alloted to the residence halls is nothing short of astounding. They really don't care if we use P2P since everyone does, and they aren't going to stop it. They tried rate capping last year but scrapped that. I like the new system.
As long as you don't get "caught" you are ok. A friend of mine got a letter from the univeristy from 20th Century fox for having certain movies. Then the university says "bad student" and that's about it.
My hs physics teacher was fond of his suspended bowling ball and used it in numerous demonstrations--all very well and good until the support breaks and the ball flies into an unsuspecting student.
Moral of the story--Flying bowling balls have a considerable amount of momentum, and they hurt.
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If only AOL expanded their instant messenger service. Sure you can type and they can type back, but what if you could actually hear the person you were chatting with? Maybe this could even be done in "Real Time." We could come up with a device so you could walk around the room and talk at the same time without tricky networking setup. We could take everyone's name and give it a number and put them in a big book so that if you wanted to chat with someone and didn't know their number you could look it up. It would even have their address!
Think of the possibilities!
The situation regarding "new" technology is this country is atrocious. Parent is correct; I don't care what they say, I bought it, I own it.
Think if this sort of a mindset was applied to the automotive industry. Once sold, you wouldn't be able to open your hood. Work on you car? Better get a lawyer ready. Only, say Ford, parts would be allowed as replacements and your car could only be serviced by a Ford dealer.
Pretty scary, eh? It's very likely that becomes the case before long.
Master of Magic is one of my all time favorite games. I feel that a truly good game should be complicated. It adds to the replayability. Parent is right about Diablo. Once you're done, why go on? I got bored midway through act III and haven't touched it since.
I still play MoM. I still play Jagged Alliance 2 (my favorite game). Who cares what it looks like as long as it plays well?
No, you get scurvy, which believe it or not has happened. Regions where there hadn't been a reported case of scurvy in decades get thrown off because some stupid college kid tries the Ramen diet.
I don't know about this. Let's say my group of engineers comes up with a wonderful new idea that gets pattented, implemented and makes my company millions of dollars. Think we are going to be millionaires? Of course not.
I guess I've never gotten the left hand on the mouse. I'm left handed and I use my right hand for the mouse. I can type better with my left and most of the quick keyboard short cuts are on the left side (ctrl-c, ctrl-v, etc).
So my question is, lefties: which is your mouse hand?
Or Legal Offensive Fund
Legal Attack Fund
Legal Smite-Evil Fund
Legal Assault Fund
Legal Operation Infinte Suing Fund
Legal Anti-Defense Fund
Oh, the posibilities
A shield of AOL CDs? Now THAT would be a reason to go to war and bomb the crap out of Iraq. ::shakes head::
AOL CDs: The only true weapon of mass destruction.
Parent is very very true. At my school they entice top incoming engineering students with a variety of scholarships. But they want you to join the honors program...not a problem, except the classes are far more demanding than the regular version and they only give slightly higher grades than the non-honor classes. End result: the majority of engineering students soon lose their GPA based scholarships.
I'm all for space exploration. Real space exploration. The problem is that NASA can't get the funding for all the good stuff so they resort to wasting money to justify their own existence. Seriously folks it's a complete and total waste.
International Space Station? Completely useless, and expensive at that. Come to think of it, NASA doesn't do anything cheap (not that I necessarily want to be on a cheap space shuttle).
NASA needs to stop wasting money on crappy little projects and ant-colonies and do something worthwhile. Then maybe it gets a bit more funding.
I too was blaming this on my university network. Pretty damn bad. My firewall is blocking requests (mostly from Europe, but lots of Asia too) at an amazing rate. I can barely read my logs fast enough.
Makes for an interesting evening I guess.
That's what I paid for my completely legal copy of Windows XP Pro. It even has a nice hologram that reads tells me it's unlicensed. Don't worry--it's all legal and good.
Yippee for Microsoft Campus Agreement (MSCA). Best $5 I've ever spent ($10 if you include the $5 copy of Office I bought).
KISSING?! DANCING?!
/. right?
You do realize this is
I worked at Blockbuster (for a short period of time, I admit) and nothing was more painful than making people pay late fees. What people don't understand is that without late fees Blockbuster doesn't make any money. Which means your rental fees would go up.
Second, DO NOT LOSE YOUR MOVIE!!! I cannot stress this enough. Realize that when you lose it you will be expected (forced) to pay well in excess of $100. Why do they do this? This part is no scam, I assure you. It's what Blockbuster actually has to pay to purchase the movies. Remember the FBI warning at the begining of the movie saying how you can't show or distribute the movie for profit? Blockbuster can, and they had to pay for that right.
Seriously folks, it's not that hard to turn in late movies. Just do it. Or squirm out of late fees, but realize you can only do that a couple times before you will have to switch stores (brands actually--Blockbuster will do a check on you to see if you have late fees at other locations).
I agree. Where has math gotten us? Clearly we know nothing about the world we live in. We are completely ignorant to the forces around us and yet we destroy forest after forest producing thick tomes to celebrate our theories on things that we have no clue about. Waste of time if you ask me.
I think we should eschew math entirely and try to come to a deeper understanding of the universe at an emotional level. Science could be easily reduced to sitting in a circle expressing how we feel about issues. "The ball keeps falling? That makes me sad!"
Last thing we need is for IBM to get the youth of America hooked on Pixie Dust.
Won't somebody PLEASE think of the children?
This is been covered many, many times before, but:
1. If I pirate a movie I gain a movie (surprise!). Net change in company's revenue: 0.
2. I don't buy or pirate movie. I gain no movie, and company gets nothing.
3. I steal a physical copy (DVD) from company. Net gain for me: 1 movie. Net loss to company: cost of producing said DVD.
4. I buy the movie. I get a movie. They get my money.
Pirating (not that I endorse it) only causes a real loss if you would buy it if you couldn't get it illegally.
How can I tell what version a file is encoded in?
Sure just send money to their paypal account and...oh wait
I agree. They have the right to do pursue their business model as they see fit.
But they shouldn't attempt to change laws to keep their business model afloat.
The extreme of people trying to work inefficient or outdated business models is the airline industry. The ticket pricing is absolutely absurd with little rationality, service terrible, and the companies riddled with inefficencies. Have you tried to fly recently? It's atrocious. And yet the government continues to bail out the airline industry. And yes, they were in trouble far before 9/11.
You are welcome to pursue any business model you choose. But there comes a time when companies have to say "Maybe there is a better way of doing this" rather than trying to point a finger and asking for government help.
This is very true. I've been told my calling card has resulted in call id results from Denver, Omaha, Chicago and more--obviously wherever I got routed through. Kinda freaky for the person on the other end of the line (Who do I know in Denver?!).
I screen calls like most people do: if it doesn't show up on the caller id, I don't pick up. If it is important the person will leave a message and I can pick up. Telemarketers don't get through.
When I was in high school one of my friends had caller id blocking (her mother was a psychiatrist). Yeah, she couldn't get any one to ever pick up for her. That's what happens when you don't show up on caller id.
I personally prefer the heroin dealer. At least he doesn't offer to expand my penis.
That's basically what my university does. Uploads are capped (except to certain schools on...dear lord--mental block...you know what I mean...the network connecting many major universities and some companies...why can't I remember the name...anyway) except on campus computers (which are further subdivided of course).
The bandwidth alloted to the residence halls is nothing short of astounding. They really don't care if we use P2P since everyone does, and they aren't going to stop it. They tried rate capping last year but scrapped that. I like the new system.
As long as you don't get "caught" you are ok. A friend of mine got a letter from the univeristy from 20th Century fox for having certain movies. Then the university says "bad student" and that's about it.
My hs physics teacher was fond of his suspended bowling ball and used it in numerous demonstrations--all very well and good until the support breaks and the ball flies into an unsuspecting student.
Moral of the story--Flying bowling balls have a considerable amount of momentum, and they hurt.
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