It was modded up because I actually dared to fill in the "?" in Step 2 of the South Park econ running joke.
In my haste to post fast and early (the only known way to get modded up to a 4 or 5), I made several technical errors, including those of fact. Some were outright half truths and some was simply made up on the spot. Others were just damn lies. I stand by my humor, but not my analysis or spelling. The post was meant to be modded as +4 Funny, -2 Troll, and -1 Flaimbait for a total score of +2. Sometimes the moderators don't do as I plan. This is unfortunate. Your mileage may vary.
Send me your contact info and I'll get you a SHIFT key for Christmas. TIA.
Supply and demand, baby. Deal with it. You don't WANT an iPod competitor. You want an iPod. Don't try to pass the competitors off as equivalent and then bitch about a price differece. Go buy the competitor if you don't like it.
Step 1) Create product Step 2) Sell it at market price based on supply and demand Step 3) Profit
I'm am deeply sickened that Google names these companies as being legitimate. These are the companies MOST responsible for spam these days, not to mention getting drugs in the wrong hands. The affiliate programs run by these drug companies are nothing short of a license to spam on their behalf. The drug companies deny responsibility because they "can't control the affiliates". Bull.
These drug companies are scum. And Google is culpable by so emphatically stating that these companies are legitimate. Google had better watch who they decide to defend.
No. Intel is always competing with itself. They want to make their products obsolete as soon as possible so that people upgrade.
Please mod parent back down, as I have made him look foolish.
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Won't this eventually alter the gravitational balances that keep everything cool in terms of orbits and what not?
I'd be a little concerned because we generally are very bad at stopping ourselves once we get started (e.g. burning dead dinosaurs, eating Twinkies...)
Just checking back after having read the responses all day. Wanted to note that my original comment was modded 24 times. 24 times. That's all I wanted to say. Never had a comment moderated that many times. It hit a 5 twice. But, alas, the metamoderators put it in its place.
Of all 24 moderations, the only one I was proud of was the one Funny moderation. That was my intent all along. The other 23 didn't get it. Either I'm really Dennis Miller-esque, or I'm really not funny.
Yet another slashdot story filled with rampant speculation and innuendo.
So, let's all rant and rave for 500 messages. Then, in 3 days, the real story will come out and be the complete opposite. And it won't ever be mentioned again on slashdot.
Knee-jerk-pot-smoking hippies! The whole bunch of you!
Corporate America (IT departments, etc.) have been under HUGE scutiny to justfiy software and show ROI. For some reason, MS Office still sticks around. It has been analyzed to death in companies I have worked at, and it is typically a slam dunk to stick with MS Office.
The problem is that despite all of this analysis and data, you just stick to your simple view of the world and assume that all these people who's jobs rely on their analysis are all dead wrong.
You, sir, have a strange way of evaluating a situation.
So, you think that companies don't look at their bottom line?
They do. And the answer is that a corporate standard that has been widely accepted is BETTER than going cheaper. Total ROI is cheaper when you use standard business tools that new employees already know. This crosses into education, as I mentioned.
Your problem is that you don't see the whole bottom line. Just the part of it that fits your view of the world.
People want to use at home what they use at work. MS Office is the "standard" for corporate America. When people change jobs, employers and the employee do not want to have to learn something new. A "standar" like MS Office offers certain benefits like this that are difficult to overcome, even given cost concerns.
Then, you have the educational dimension as well. Schools don't want to have classes for both. These days, community colleges are filled with people seeking Office certification (MOS/MOUS certification). Some companies and employees value these certifications. Schools play to that market and won't offer 2 totally different word processing courses. Too expensive. They cater to the market.
These factors are complex and difficult to overcome. Don't just scream "Stupid CEO! Office is too expensive!" before you understand all of the factors.
Why, again, do the slashdot editors seem to imply that college students should have free access to commercial free music? For god's sake, if you are going to go communist for college students, why not just imply that college students should get a free education, room, and board?
I don't get it.
So, Loudeye had some dimwitted salesperson with a big mouth. Shocking. Just shocking.
How did the universe get 18 million light years across in just 760,000 years? Seems that something would have had to travel faster than light to get far away.
There is no sound in space. Slashdot told me so. Even though they all love star wars, which has lots of sound in space.
I'd say we're getting our money's worth out of this thing....
Between the 2 guys, they can barely keep the thing operational, let alone do anything of value. We are learning nothing except that we suck at living in space. Abandon ship.
Where's the leadership in congress, the executive branch, NASA, or the scientific community? Who's gonna step up? All are capable. All are too busy with self-congratulations and ass-covering.
See my explanation in a reply to the other post next to yours.
No. The errors were made-up medical conditions that sounded almost real. Like a word from this condition and a word from that condition. For example, because this was my first visit, I did a brief 5 minute history with the doc verbally. He wrote a couple things down, like the fact that when I was 5, a doc checked some infection on me, but found it to be nothing. This, of course, went down in my record as me CURRENTLY having XXXX infection, where XXXX was a word from 10 sentences later and not related to this thing I mentioned to him. Now, this sort of thing happened 3 times!!! I was "OFFICIALLY" diagnosed with something that I clearly did not have and was never treated for.
Keep making your assumptions and rationalizing your behavior, though. Someday, I'll be bold enough to post the letters and records in addition to the subsequent insurance denials. Fun stuff! It's the doctors and individuals at the companies. This has NOTHING to do with some unjust system. It has everything to do with laziness and ass covering by individuals with names and power.
No. I am quite polite when I don't have a cloak of anonymity to hide behind.:)
It went something like this:
Apply for insurance 14 months after a simple checkup.
Insurance gets ahold of badly transcribed records.
Insurance denies coverage.
After brief struggle, obtain info from insurance company as to why I was denied.
Read transcript and drop jaw to floor.
Take transcript to doctor who shakes head and blames transcription company.
Agree with doctor and say "what a shame" over and over together. Ask doctor to help fix it. Get denied EXTREMELY strongly and (in hindsight) rudely. Walk away thinking I did something wrong.
Check online and see that I should contact a lawyer. Lawyer makes 1 very pleasant phone call, doctor writes letter to insurance company and alledgedly fixes records and files.
Insurance company still denies. Denial goes on a national 2 year list. Unable to get insured for 2 years. Thank you, may I have another. Oh. And I get to report the denial for the rest of my life.
Now, if you have any questions or want to engage in more name calling, feel free. The doctor was an a-hole, the insurance company was an a-hole, the lawyer bill cost as much as the doctor visit. On top of that, I'm probably one of the healthiest people posting on slashdot, and for a good while, I could not get insurance, despite being young and having NO claims for at least the past 8 years. Never hospitalized, etc.
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It was modded up because I actually dared to fill in the "?" in Step 2 of the South Park econ running joke.
In my haste to post fast and early (the only known way to get modded up to a 4 or 5), I made several technical errors, including those of fact. Some were outright half truths and some was simply made up on the spot. Others were just damn lies. I stand by my humor, but not my analysis or spelling. The post was meant to be modded as +4 Funny, -2 Troll, and -1 Flaimbait for a total score of +2. Sometimes the moderators don't do as I plan. This is unfortunate. Your mileage may vary.
Send me your contact info and I'll get you a SHIFT key for Christmas. TIA.
Supply and demand, baby. Deal with it. You don't WANT an iPod competitor. You want an iPod. Don't try to pass the competitors off as equivalent and then bitch about a price differece. Go buy the competitor if you don't like it.
Step 1) Create product
Step 2) Sell it at market price based on supply and demand
Step 3) Profit
It's so easy, even Microsoft can do it!
I'm am deeply sickened that Google names these companies as being legitimate. These are the companies MOST responsible for spam these days, not to mention getting drugs in the wrong hands. The affiliate programs run by these drug companies are nothing short of a license to spam on their behalf. The drug companies deny responsibility because they "can't control the affiliates". Bull.
These drug companies are scum. And Google is culpable by so emphatically stating that these companies are legitimate. Google had better watch who they decide to defend.
Well, for once you won't be modded down as "Off Topic".
This slashdot article is useless to me! It is long and technical.
No mention of SCO or Microsoft anywhere!
Who am I to rally against in my posts with my slashdot-trained, knee-jerk, simple-minded, insipid comments?
Quick! Someone submit an article where Linus makes fun of SCO or where Steve Ballmer mis-pronounces a word!
No. Intel is always competing with itself. They want to make their products obsolete as soon as possible so that people upgrade.
Please mod parent back down, as I have made him look foolish.
Won't this eventually alter the gravitational balances that keep everything cool in terms of orbits and what not?
I'd be a little concerned because we generally are very bad at stopping ourselves once we get started (e.g. burning dead dinosaurs, eating Twinkies...)
Just checking back after having read the responses all day. Wanted to note that my original comment was modded 24 times. 24 times. That's all I wanted to say. Never had a comment moderated that many times. It hit a 5 twice. But, alas, the metamoderators put it in its place.
Of all 24 moderations, the only one I was proud of was the one Funny moderation. That was my intent all along. The other 23 didn't get it. Either I'm really Dennis Miller-esque, or I'm really not funny.
Yet another slashdot story filled with rampant speculation and innuendo.
So, let's all rant and rave for 500 messages. Then, in 3 days, the real story will come out and be the complete opposite. And it won't ever be mentioned again on slashdot.
Knee-jerk-pot-smoking hippies! The whole bunch of you!
I, for one, welcome our new attorney overlords.
Oh, wait. They've been here ever since the first election in the country... Nevermind.
Hey, dude! Look! They posted the solar flare story!! Now, my life is even LESS boring! Cool!
I think the new wave of Sun storms (3 flares in the past several hours) is a more appropriate Slashdot story.
What a bunch of non-news. How many people has this BT spamming happened to? Like 1?
Sounds like Taco got taken in by a brand new urban legend.
Karmatic bitchslapping is a protected form of free speech. Read up on it at censorware.org. Oh. Wait a minute...
Yes. Mr. Sims is a hypocrite and a fraud. He has the political mind-think of a 14 year old girl. If only the world were as simple as his mind.
Corporate America (IT departments, etc.) have been under HUGE scutiny to justfiy software and show ROI. For some reason, MS Office still sticks around. It has been analyzed to death in companies I have worked at, and it is typically a slam dunk to stick with MS Office.
The problem is that despite all of this analysis and data, you just stick to your simple view of the world and assume that all these people who's jobs rely on their analysis are all dead wrong.
You, sir, have a strange way of evaluating a situation.
So, you think that companies don't look at their bottom line?
They do. And the answer is that a corporate standard that has been widely accepted is BETTER than going cheaper. Total ROI is cheaper when you use standard business tools that new employees already know. This crosses into education, as I mentioned.
Your problem is that you don't see the whole bottom line. Just the part of it that fits your view of the world.
People want to use at home what they use at work. MS Office is the "standard" for corporate America. When people change jobs, employers and the employee do not want to have to learn something new. A "standar" like MS Office offers certain benefits like this that are difficult to overcome, even given cost concerns.
Then, you have the educational dimension as well. Schools don't want to have classes for both. These days, community colleges are filled with people seeking Office certification (MOS/MOUS certification). Some companies and employees value these certifications. Schools play to that market and won't offer 2 totally different word processing courses. Too expensive. They cater to the market.
These factors are complex and difficult to overcome. Don't just scream "Stupid CEO! Office is too expensive!" before you understand all of the factors.
Why, again, do the slashdot editors seem to imply that college students should have free access to commercial free music? For god's sake, if you are going to go communist for college students, why not just imply that college students should get a free education, room, and board?
I don't get it.
So, Loudeye had some dimwitted salesperson with a big mouth. Shocking. Just shocking.
Hasn't the slashdot crowd been clamoring for a test of the GPL since day one?
Why is this a bad thing?
Fine. Take them to court. Seems pretty simple at this point. Both sides want the same thing. A legal test of the GPL. Shouldn't we be celebrating?
Sounds like a monopoly.
Weak. Really weak. You physicists just don't know when to stop.
I don't think so. I really don't think so...
How did the universe get 18 million light years across in just 760,000 years? Seems that something would have had to travel faster than light to get far away.
There is no sound in space. Slashdot told me so. Even though they all love star wars, which has lots of sound in space.
I, for one, welcome our new media overlord.
With the entertainment industry firmly entwined with the political structure, what can possible go wrong?
I'd say we're getting our money's worth out of this thing....
Between the 2 guys, they can barely keep the thing operational, let alone do anything of value. We are learning nothing except that we suck at living in space. Abandon ship.
Where's the leadership in congress, the executive branch, NASA, or the scientific community? Who's gonna step up? All are capable. All are too busy with self-congratulations and ass-covering.
See my explanation in a reply to the other post next to yours.
No. The errors were made-up medical conditions that sounded almost real. Like a word from this condition and a word from that condition. For example, because this was my first visit, I did a brief 5 minute history with the doc verbally. He wrote a couple things down, like the fact that when I was 5, a doc checked some infection on me, but found it to be nothing. This, of course, went down in my record as me CURRENTLY having XXXX infection, where XXXX was a word from 10 sentences later and not related to this thing I mentioned to him. Now, this sort of thing happened 3 times!!! I was "OFFICIALLY" diagnosed with something that I clearly did not have and was never treated for.
Keep making your assumptions and rationalizing your behavior, though. Someday, I'll be bold enough to post the letters and records in addition to the subsequent insurance denials. Fun stuff! It's the doctors and individuals at the companies. This has NOTHING to do with some unjust system. It has everything to do with laziness and ass covering by individuals with names and power.
No. I am quite polite when I don't have a cloak of anonymity to hide behind. :)
It went something like this:
Apply for insurance 14 months after a simple checkup.
Insurance gets ahold of badly transcribed records.
Insurance denies coverage.
After brief struggle, obtain info from insurance company as to why I was denied.
Read transcript and drop jaw to floor.
Take transcript to doctor who shakes head and blames transcription company.
Agree with doctor and say "what a shame" over and over together. Ask doctor to help fix it. Get denied EXTREMELY strongly and (in hindsight) rudely. Walk away thinking I did something wrong.
Check online and see that I should contact a lawyer. Lawyer makes 1 very pleasant phone call, doctor writes letter to insurance company and alledgedly fixes records and files.
Insurance company still denies. Denial goes on a national 2 year list. Unable to get insured for 2 years. Thank you, may I have another. Oh. And I get to report the denial for the rest of my life.
Now, if you have any questions or want to engage in more name calling, feel free. The doctor was an a-hole, the insurance company was an a-hole, the lawyer bill cost as much as the doctor visit. On top of that, I'm probably one of the healthiest people posting on slashdot, and for a good while, I could not get insurance, despite being young and having NO claims for at least the past 8 years. Never hospitalized, etc.