I took my flu shot, last year, and got sick from it.
By 'sick' did you mean 'sick with the flu'?
You probably didn't get the flu from the flu shot.
The flu shot only protects you from certain strains of the flu virus. You probably got one of the many strains of the flu that wasn't covered by the flu shot. This was pretty common last year.
And then, all of a sudden the media ran around screaming "Crisis Crisis" when stocks of the flu shot got low (per the schedule).
Usually when I go into a chain music store, new CD's are about $17 each. Best Buy's prices don't matter to me, because it's for music I never buy...
For Christmas, my wife asked for the Grease two disc soundtrack. Not exactly an obscure title. I looked at Best Buy, Borders and Virgin and found the 1-disc "Highlights from Grease" sound track for $18.99. None of them carried the two disc set. Went to my local music store and found the two disc set (new) for $20. Used two disc set was $15. New "Highlights" single disc was $15. Used was $8.
This is typical, I can usually find a new CD at our local stores for a few bucks less then the big retailers. More importantly, I can actually find the music I'm looking for.
I've given up on the big box retailers. There's absoutely no reason for me to go there.
All they want is the lowest price, which the large retailers are going to provide.
Lowest price? Usually not. Every time I go into a big box music store, I leave wondering why I even entered the store in the first place.
In my experience, the major chains are too expensive ($17 for a domestic easy-to-find CD? Who the heck pays these prices?), rarely have anything I'm looking for (but they have 100 copies of Britany Spears and Eminem), the staff is clueless once you get out of the top-100 albums, you can't buy used CDs (Why pay $17 when I can get the same thing for $8 used).
Maybe I'm a bit spoiled with our local music stores: Amoeba, and Rasputin (Which some consider a big evil retailer, but their selection still crushes the Big Box music store), among others. Are these a rarity? I've been to similar stores in Seattle, LA, Denver, etc...
Who wants to trek down to ask Record Story Guy about that obscure album when you can sit in front of your computer and make a post on some web site to the world?
The advantage of the record store is that you can get that information in a few minutes. If you make a post on some website, you'll often end up waiting for days...
What about all the useless fees (like athletics- this is slashdot, right?) you don't have any control over?
Actually, at UCSC the athletic fee was voluntary, and all of the sports teams had to do quite a bit of fundraising to fund their own team. We didn't have anything expensive like a big football team or anything.
You paid the fee if you wanted to use the pool, gym or take gym classes, but you had control over that part.
Interesting. I went to UCSC in 91-95 (Collage 8, aka Spam College), and I remember it differently. I distinctly remember there being checkbox for the CalPIRG fees in the bill or application form, but few people checked it. I remember my moral conflict well. I worked in the Student Center for a couple of years, and hung out with the Calpirg folks often. Still, I felt it was wrong for them to have this privledge over all the other student groups.
Still, you're right. The University really had no business acting as bill collector for CalPIRG. The got cheap office space for rent (as with all qualified student run groups), the right to lobby on campus, etc.
No matter where you go in the world you will meet someone from UCSC.
One that is true, however "An Evil Leader is typically not elected by a majority of the voters", happens to apply also to Bill Clinton, who did NOT get a majority in either of his elections.
Actually, he did, unless by "NOT get a majority" you really meant "NOT NOT get a majority".
Clinton won the majority during BOTH the 1992 and 1996 elections, in both the popular election and electoral colleges. Let's review:
During the 1992 election, Clinton received 43% of the popular votes, and 68.8% of the electoral college. Bush lost because he received less votes then Clinton, 37.45% of the total, and 31.2% electoral college. Clinton won the majority.
In 1996, Clinton received 49.24% of the popular votes, and 70.4% of the electoral system. Dole received 40.71% of the popular votes, and 29.6% in the electoral college. Again, Clinton won the majority.
By all counts, Clinton won the majority vote in both elections.
Let's compare that to the 2000 election, where Gore received a 48.38% majority of the popular vote, but only 49.4% of the electoral college. Bush lost the popular election, with a 47.87% minority, but he won in the electoral college with 50.4% of the electoral college.
Oh no, it's not Bush's fault, he only said he was going to completely change NASA's mission to focus completely on a trip to the Moon and to Mars, which leaves no money to do anything else.
"He said the decision was influenced by President Bush's new space initiative, which calls for NASA to start developing the spacecraft and equipment for voyages to the moon and later to Mars. The president's plan also called for the space shuttle to be retired by 2010. Virtually all of the shuttle's remaining flights would be used to complete construction of the International Space Station."
With all these multimedia apps, it would be great to have one of these iLife enabled Macs next to my TV.
If I could hook it up to the TV and the stereo, I'd have streaming audio, a CD player, DVD player... thought I saw a radio receiver card somewhere. I could replace many apps with a single device.
But the footprint of the Macs are too big for this sort of application. Wonder if they're going to work on that next...
No no no, you guys are taking the word "Superior" out of context. This is understandable, since he has a few typos. He didn't mean "Superior Quality". Far from it.
He clearly meant "Superior" as in:
"Superior Officer", you know... the guy at boot camp who tells you to clean his boots with your tounge or he'll kick your ass.
"Mother Superior", the lady who wacks your knuckles with her yardstick and put's soap in your mouth for speaking out of turn.
For being on a geek site, you aren't very forward-looking.
Shoot, is that in the "Official Geek Manual"? Do I lose geek points when I say "I don't care" about most of these new products?
A tech geek is someone who finds technology insteresting. However it doesn't mean that think that all new technology is 'foward-looking'.
On the contrary, after being exposed to technology for a while, I'm pretty cynical and disinterested in most products put out by these tech shows. They are usually full of the same shit that we have been seeing for years. "New speakers" -- ooohhh... a new kind of camera -- ahhh... "more slick promotions about useless products to waste your money on" -- ah-ha!
The bicycle is at its development ceiling, there isn't much more you can do with the basic idea except to make it lighter and stronger
And what's wrong with being at it's development ceiling? A product doesn't need be technologically advanced for it to be interesting. Bikes are interesting because they are here, now. They can get you to places which no car or segway can go. They provide recreation, exersize, transportation, and are affordable, clean, healthy and fun.
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These things look small and light.
I'd love to get a set of these and attach them to the spokes on my bicycle wheels. Swirly rainbow of light zooming across the dark.
No driver could miss me then.
I took my flu shot, last year, and got sick from it.
By 'sick' did you mean 'sick with the flu'?
You probably didn't get the flu from the flu shot.
The flu shot only protects you from certain strains of the flu virus. You probably got one of the many strains of the flu that wasn't covered by the flu shot. This was pretty common last year.
And then, all of a sudden the media ran around screaming "Crisis Crisis" when stocks of the flu shot got low (per the schedule).
Ha, that's nothing.
This guy is still maintining the Linux 0.02 branch, and STILL hasn't released an update in over 13 years!
Usually when I go into a chain music store, new CD's are about $17 each. Best Buy's prices don't matter to me, because it's for music I never buy...
For Christmas, my wife asked for the Grease two disc soundtrack. Not exactly an obscure title. I looked at Best Buy, Borders and Virgin and found the 1-disc "Highlights from Grease" sound track for $18.99. None of them carried the two disc set. Went to my local music store and found the two disc set (new) for $20. Used two disc set was $15. New "Highlights" single disc was $15. Used was $8.
This is typical, I can usually find a new CD at our local stores for a few bucks less then the big retailers. More importantly, I can actually find the music I'm looking for.
I've given up on the big box retailers. There's absoutely no reason for me to go there.
All they want is the lowest price, which the large retailers are going to provide.
Lowest price? Usually not. Every time I go into a big box music store, I leave wondering why I even entered the store in the first place.
In my experience, the major chains are too expensive ($17 for a domestic easy-to-find CD? Who the heck pays these prices?), rarely have anything I'm looking for (but they have 100 copies of Britany Spears and Eminem), the staff is clueless once you get out of the top-100 albums, you can't buy used CDs (Why pay $17 when I can get the same thing for $8 used).
Maybe I'm a bit spoiled with our local music stores: Amoeba, and Rasputin (Which some consider a big evil retailer, but their selection still crushes the Big Box music store), among others. Are these a rarity? I've been to similar stores in Seattle, LA, Denver, etc...
Who wants to trek down to ask Record Story Guy about that obscure album when you can sit in front of your computer and make a post on some web site to the world?
The advantage of the record store is that you can get that information in a few minutes. If you make a post on some website, you'll often end up waiting for days...
What about all the useless fees (like athletics- this is slashdot, right?) you don't have any control over?
Actually, at UCSC the athletic fee was voluntary, and all of the sports teams had to do quite a bit of fundraising to fund their own team. We didn't have anything expensive like a big football team or anything.
You paid the fee if you wanted to use the pool, gym or take gym classes, but you had control over that part.
Interesting. I went to UCSC in 91-95 (Collage 8, aka Spam College), and I remember it differently. I distinctly remember there being checkbox for the CalPIRG fees in the bill or application form, but few people checked it. I remember my moral conflict well. I worked in the Student Center for a couple of years, and hung out with the Calpirg folks often. Still, I felt it was wrong for them to have this privledge over all the other student groups.
Still, you're right. The University really had no business acting as bill collector for CalPIRG. The got cheap office space for rent (as with all qualified student run groups), the right to lobby on campus, etc.
No matter where you go in the world you will meet someone from UCSC.
Hah! That's nothing, let me turn you in, and I'll give you .5000% , or if I feel generous, .500000% !!!!
I hate ping pong avalanches.
The hardest part is digging yourself out with nothing but a ping pong paddle...
With a flying Pinto, you'll crash into the ground, the gas tank will spray gasoline all over you, and then you'll fly through the windshield.
What a novel idea! It's like the exact opposite of seat belts and airbags.
Gates uses MacOS, Torvalds uses Windows, and Jobs uses Linux.
Bush uses that mouse-y clicky thing with the interweb.
Ever wonder what happens when a website gets smacked by a locomotive?
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CHooooo Chooooo!
I-serve-I-can I-serve-I-can I--serve--I--can I---serve---I---can
I------------serve----------
CHooooo Chooooo!
Slash-a-dot-a Slash-a-dot-a Slash-a-dot-a Slash-a-dot-a Slash-a-dot-a
Until the realaudio and realvideo formats are opened, integrating those other formats is just helping Realmedia Corp. co-opt the open formats.
Of you don't want groups to co-opt your open format, then don't release an open format.
I thought the whole point of open formats to be used?
Personally, I prefer Pork Brains (with 2000% of your RDA of cholestoral). The milk gravy takes off that edge...
One that is true, however "An Evil Leader is typically not elected by a majority of the voters", happens to apply also to Bill Clinton, who did NOT get a majority in either of his elections.
Actually, he did, unless by "NOT get a majority" you really meant "NOT NOT get a majority".
Clinton won the majority during BOTH the 1992 and 1996 elections, in both the popular election and electoral colleges. Let's review:
During the 1992 election, Clinton received 43% of the popular votes, and 68.8% of the electoral college. Bush lost because he received less votes then Clinton, 37.45% of the total, and 31.2% electoral college. Clinton won the majority.
In 1996, Clinton received 49.24% of the popular votes, and 70.4% of the electoral system. Dole received 40.71% of the popular votes, and 29.6% in the electoral college. Again, Clinton won the majority.
By all counts, Clinton won the majority vote in both elections.
Let's compare that to the 2000 election, where Gore received a 48.38% majority of the popular vote, but only 49.4% of the electoral college. Bush lost the popular election, with a 47.87% minority, but he won in the electoral college with 50.4% of the electoral college.
I'd bet that nearly all of the of the major Airlines have done this. Northwest and JetBlue just happened to get caught...
It also drives home the importance of our taking what we hear on radio/TV and what we read in the newspapers with a very big grain of salt.
It also drives home the importance of listening to and supporting your local radio and TV stations.
It is not the fault of his proposal
Oh no, it's not Bush's fault, he only said he was going to completely change NASA's mission to focus completely on a trip to the Moon and to Mars, which leaves no money to do anything else.
Are you a fucking moron????
"He said the decision was influenced by President Bush's new space initiative, which calls for NASA to start developing the spacecraft and equipment for voyages to the moon and later to Mars. The president's plan also called for the space shuttle to be retired by 2010. Virtually all of the shuttle's remaining flights would be used to complete construction of the International Space Station."
Yes, but my TV is bigger then the iMac monitor. And cheaper...
I was hoping to use the TV as a monitor in order to reduce the footprint of the device.
One of those old Mac Cubes is the right size, or one of these Mini ITX boxes...
With all these multimedia apps, it would be great to have one of these iLife enabled Macs next to my TV.
If I could hook it up to the TV and the stereo, I'd have streaming audio, a CD player, DVD player... thought I saw a radio receiver card somewhere. I could replace many apps with a single device.
But the footprint of the Macs are too big for this sort of application. Wonder if they're going to work on that next...
but all those servo motors, life support systems and weapons had to be running some type of OS.
Yes, I believe it was called "Black string attached to sticks and some dude named Irwin who went 'Pssshhhbbb! Psssshhhb! Beep!'" Version 3.1.1
No no no, you guys are taking the word "Superior" out of context. This is understandable, since he has a few typos. He didn't mean "Superior Quality". Far from it.
He clearly meant "Superior" as in:
"Superior Officer", you know... the guy at boot camp who tells you to clean his boots with your tounge or he'll kick your ass.
"Mother Superior", the lady who wacks your knuckles with her yardstick and put's soap in your mouth for speaking out of turn.
"Superior", as in "above being affected or influenced; indifferent or immune" BY THE LAW.
They just think they're SOOOOOO superior...
What do you mean you can't see them. I can see them, why can't you! And they sound beautiful.
I'm really happy about The Emperors new speakers. Almost as cool as The Emperors new clothes.
For being on a geek site, you aren't very forward-looking.
Shoot, is that in the "Official Geek Manual"? Do I lose geek points when I say "I don't care" about most of these new products?
A tech geek is someone who finds technology insteresting. However it doesn't mean that think that all new technology is 'foward-looking'.
On the contrary, after being exposed to technology for a while, I'm pretty cynical and disinterested in most products put out by these tech shows. They are usually full of the same shit that we have been seeing for years. "New speakers" -- ooohhh... a new kind of camera -- ahhh... "more slick promotions about useless products to waste your money on" -- ah-ha!
The bicycle is at its development ceiling, there isn't much more you can do with the basic idea except to make it lighter and stronger
And what's wrong with being at it's development ceiling? A product doesn't need be technologically advanced for it to be interesting. Bikes are interesting because they are here, now. They can get you to places which no car or segway can go. They provide recreation, exersize, transportation, and are affordable, clean, healthy and fun.