So I could buy the book, walk out the door, scan it, see the price at Amazon, order it, return the book to the 1st vendor, and be done with it. All within a moment.
Vendors are going to have to compete, or they're going to close and everything will be done by mail.
People think this is cool, yet when Walmart comes to town, they think that sucks. Why? It's the same thing. Actually, Walmart employs local people, so it's better than Amazon.com.
The state of Vermont wanted to outlaw Walmart from opening up stores there. Yet they have no problem with Amazon.com or any other mail order shop undercutting Vermont retailers. Try and find a bookstore in Vermont in the next few years. It'll be tough.
Is it just me, or are there a few people out there that simply wanna claim, "See, I told you so? Remember, back in Nov. '04, I pointed out the end of Moore's Law. See! I was the one that figured it out."
And what happens? It keeps going, and going. When we do hit the end, you'll hear about it, but it's not going to be on/. first.
The issue with dual video is bandwidth. It's not microprocessor speed. The bus can't keep up. Bottlenecks exist.
Politicians say one thing, do another. But let's say it passes.
Let's say someone writes a new program, and tries to bring it to market. The guy down the street sees it, copies it, and sells it as his own.
What's going to stop him?
Frankly, if someone told me that all my work was going to be non-patentable, I'd leave. It's telling me that my work isn't worth it, and that we're going to take it and give it to the public for free. Well, that's not going to pay my rent, put food on the table, or take care of me when I'm old and need to go to the doctor.
Because that would allow you to share that CD with others, especially at a LAN party. Other people could "borrow" your CD to install, and then use the NOCD hack to pass this CD to someone else.
Valve's idea is one CD = one version of the game running. They don't tell you that, but that's what they want.
I don't go to LAN parties, I don't know anyone else that plays FPS, but it's still f*cking annoying to have to dig out the CD, put it in just to play the game. I quit playing most games because they're just not worth it. $50? $40 on sale if you're lucky? Nope.
Ted has no morals. He's a boozing, wife-cheating skirt-chaser, and he's calling this game despicable?
The game is guilty of bad taste.
But, I'd be willing to listen to what Ted says when he will admit/apologize/own up to his morally bankrupt behavior.
Until then, I just hope Ted remembers that we have a right to free speech, and that he should defend that right.
If not, he's a hypocrite, and that's far worse than bad taste.
I can see the employees point of view. EA must've held these people hostage. They put guns to their heads. They made them come to work. They forced them to stay late.
I just don't get these whiny people. They don't have any experience, they're fresh out of high school, trade school, junior college, or regular college, and they want megabucks, short hours, and the rest of their lives handed to them on a silver platter?
As someone else mentioned, where else are you going to get a job without any experience at that age? I'll give you a clue. McDonalds is always hiring. I hope you don't mind grease.
Curious, I punched up the IP address (69.6.66.17) in my web browser, and I get the default IIS page, telling me there is not a default web page... blah-blah-blah.
So this clown is either stupid and someone really has hacked his box and it's a zombie, or he's playing dead, and has set up the box to appear hacked, and is happily harvesting email addresses anyway. Either way, boxes like these should be shut down. Who leaves an unprotected IIS box exposed to the internet?
I'm curious if anyone is able to resolve that IP address to a street address. It has to be static. Get someone over to that address, see what's going on with this clown.
Read the articles. These "researchers" looked at trends based on 1996, 2000, 2004. I hate to say it, but trends change. If they didn't, we'd all be millionaires.
They compared counties with and without electronic voting, and they extrapolated based on the past. They might as well have said educated guesses.
The truth is, no one will know exactly how those people voted. There isn't a paper trail.
I smell too many tinfoil-hat wearing college liberals in this "research."
Isn't this best left to the authorities?
When did the MPAA think that it was their job to be police? Maybe if they came up with better products, better pricing, different marketing ploys, piracy might go away?
MS, instead of doing their own work, gets some scripts together to parse google searches into "MS" searches, and they declare a profit, celebrate, watch the stock price rise, and go home happy.
When Google figures out how they're doing it, they get their lawyers, MS gets their lawyers, they meet in court, they settle, MS still makes a profit, Google gets a little something for the effort, and MS still comes out ahead.
20 years of this behavior, and people haven't figured it out. MS put the screws to WordPerfect for 10+ years, and we all saw the settlement from a few days ago. $536 million? That's chump change when you figure out what Office made in the past 10 years.
The FCC is simply taking state governments out of the mix because different states will create different rules, and NO ONE will be happy. And we all know that California will do everything possible to screw EVERYONE up worse than anywhere else, because California politics is as crazy as it gets.
I look at it as a brief moment of sanity, because I fully expect the states to do SOME THING to tax the crap out of everything. They certainly don't want you doing anything for free. That wouldn't be right. We also need to be regulated in everything we do, for we can do nothing ourselves without getting into trouble, or offending someone else, and for GOD'S SAKE, we wouldn't want to offend anyone.
I know. I offended someone by using GOD in a sentence. It's something my parents said 39 times a day when I was a little kid. It's a TOUGH habit to break.
We live in a free economy. If you don't like it, don't shop there. If you got screwed, camp out and make sure you let the store manager and each and every employee know that you'll spread your bad stories across the country.
My mom worked in an interior design supply store, and she'd have customers come in on Friday, outfit their living room, and then on Monday, return everything. She knew what they were doing. But the owner of the store was unwilling to put a stop to it. The store went under after a few years.
How would you like to lose your job because of this? Do you blame the store? Do you call your Senator? No. I think you do your best to deter "bad" customers.
What they need to do is, for those frequent shoppers like the woman mentioned in the newspaper article (I did read the article), so that they see that she's a valued customer.
These businesses are focused on removing the bad WITHOUT retaining their valued customers.
It's also the main reason that I don't trust mainstream news media. Forget the big 3 networks. They all take their agenda from the NYTimes.
I don't know if it's arrogance, but they can't seem to believe that we need to see anything else. If you've not noticed, the "news" is ALL doom and gloom. They realized that "good" doesn't sell advertising. And that's what it's all about. Advertising. If no one buys advertising, you've not got much of a business.
If you don't like what's happened at Google, why don't you ask them? Is it censorship? They are a publicly traded company, they fall under more scrutiny than they did before.
They're more like... what Larry Niven called them in Oath of Fealty... waldos. Remote-control does not give them a brain, so how do the robotics laws apply?
If you're bashing in a door, and someone pulls a toy gun, a human police office is going to blast away. If a robot knocks down the door, and someone pulls a toy gun, the robot isn't going to care, it's going to wait and see, and the person with the toy gun is going to crap their pants.
Now, if someone gives this thing a program, sends it "over the next hill and shoot anything that moves", we're still not into artificial intelligence. It's just another guided weapon, and I don't see how it's called a robot anymore than a Tomahawk cruise missile is a "robot".
Yahoo's Politics page has been slow at times.
The State of Ohio election pages have been slow. The State of Florida was slow until the networks called it a win for W.
Everyone is busy, everyone is reloading, waiting for the newest updates, taking a lot of hits, and when something doesn't load, impatient people hit reload.
And if someone posted the site on Slashdot, that compounds the problem.
The iPod photo... in order to get photos on it, I have to download from my camera or CF card to the computer, then upload to the iPod. What is the point?
What was Apple thinking? How does this make me want to buy an iPod?
If Apple had 1/2 a brain, they'd have stuck a card reader in it. Or allowed a card reader to plug directly into it. I have 8 gig worth of CF cards. I'd love to be able to go to a shoot w/ just an iPod, my camera, and a few cards.
Instead, I'll buy an Image Tank or somethign else that's capable of downloading from memory cards.
Nice move Apple. You could have improved a good product.
Bush's statement makes sense. But, who in the House or the Senate is going to originate any changes? You don't think Hollings is going to serve up some amendments to this thing, do you? Hollings never understood the technology, and was bought off by lobbyists. Wait. Maybe he understood the techology, but just didn't give a damn?
The sad thing is, no matter who is elected, any changes will be so watered-down by the House and Senate that we might as well have no change at all. In fact, we're likely to be worse off than before. Lobbyists / special interest groups have far too much power in this country, and both parties are equally affected.
I have a pair of phones (one for the wife), unlimited web browsing, $15/month. I don't have a cable over to my laptop, but I keep thinking I might do it. I'm still waiting for a better Treo or something to come along.
It's typical of many companies. They do not want to compete on innovation, it's too risky.
They all think they can make the same product cheaper and/or better. There isn't much risk because the development costs are so low.
Another issue: Many people shop on price. They will overlook "useability" if they can save money, as long as it is compatible. People will deal with minutes/hours/days/weeks/years of pain and agony using a poorly designed product. They will defend their decision by saying, "Hey, I saved $9.00 by buying brand X." As long as it is compatible with the competition, people will buy on price. It's a sucker bet for many companies. Produce a cheap product, spend as little as possible on development, and undercut the competition. Many consumers don't care about the interface, they'd rather save money.
Another issue: We've become a throw-away society. Look at inkjet printers. It's almost the same price to buy a new inkjet with cartridges at Target/Walmart/Best Buy than it is to just buy new cartridges. Why would I spend $58 on 2 new cartridges when I can spend $60 and get a brand new printer with 2 cartridges?
These people also know that something new is usually just around the corner, and they don't want to spend a boatload of cash on something and be locked into the betamax of tomorrow.
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So I could buy the book, walk out the door, scan it, see the price at Amazon, order it, return the book to the 1st vendor, and be done with it. All within a moment. Vendors are going to have to compete, or they're going to close and everything will be done by mail. People think this is cool, yet when Walmart comes to town, they think that sucks. Why? It's the same thing. Actually, Walmart employs local people, so it's better than Amazon.com.
The state of Vermont wanted to outlaw Walmart from opening up stores there. Yet they have no problem with Amazon.com or any other mail order shop undercutting Vermont retailers. Try and find a bookstore in Vermont in the next few years. It'll be tough.
Is it just me, or are there a few people out there that simply wanna claim, "See, I told you so? Remember, back in Nov. '04, I pointed out the end of Moore's Law. See! I was the one that figured it out."
And what happens? It keeps going, and going. When we do hit the end, you'll hear about it, but it's not going to be on
The issue with dual video is bandwidth. It's not microprocessor speed. The bus can't keep up. Bottlenecks exist.
Politicians say one thing, do another. But let's say it passes.
Let's say someone writes a new program, and tries to bring it to market. The guy down the street sees it, copies it, and sells it as his own. What's going to stop him?
Frankly, if someone told me that all my work was going to be non-patentable, I'd leave. It's telling me that my work isn't worth it, and that we're going to take it and give it to the public for free. Well, that's not going to pay my rent, put food on the table, or take care of me when I'm old and need to go to the doctor.
Because that would allow you to share that CD with others, especially at a LAN party. Other people could "borrow" your CD to install, and then use the NOCD hack to pass this CD to someone else.
Valve's idea is one CD = one version of the game running. They don't tell you that, but that's what they want.
I don't go to LAN parties, I don't know anyone else that plays FPS, but it's still f*cking annoying to have to dig out the CD, put it in just to play the game. I quit playing most games because they're just not worth it. $50? $40 on sale if you're lucky? Nope.
What would the SEC think if they saw news about google on news.google or in the search index?
It could be construed the wrong way, and then Google is in a lot of legal hot water for misdirecting it's client base.
So rather than take a chance, they just filter everything about Google, good or bad.
Artest got his just rewards. Year suspension WITHTOUT pay.
Hey Ron, remember that rap album you wanted to work on? You got it. Go ahead. Take the month off. Better yet, we'll just see you next August.
Ted has no morals. He's a boozing, wife-cheating skirt-chaser, and he's calling this game despicable?
The game is guilty of bad taste.
But, I'd be willing to listen to what Ted says when he will admit/apologize/own up to his morally bankrupt behavior.
Until then, I just hope Ted remembers that we have a right to free speech, and that he should defend that right.
If not, he's a hypocrite, and that's far worse than bad taste.
I can see the employees point of view. EA must've held these people hostage. They put guns to their heads. They made them come to work. They forced them to stay late.
I just don't get these whiny people. They don't have any experience, they're fresh out of high school, trade school, junior college, or regular college, and they want megabucks, short hours, and the rest of their lives handed to them on a silver platter?
As someone else mentioned, where else are you going to get a job without any experience at that age? I'll give you a clue. McDonalds is always hiring. I hope you don't mind grease.
Curious, I punched up the IP address (69.6.66.17) in my web browser, and I get the default IIS page, telling me there is not a default web page... blah-blah-blah.
So this clown is either stupid and someone really has hacked his box and it's a zombie, or he's playing dead, and has set up the box to appear hacked, and is happily harvesting email addresses anyway. Either way, boxes like these should be shut down. Who leaves an unprotected IIS box exposed to the internet?
I'm curious if anyone is able to resolve that IP address to a street address. It has to be static. Get someone over to that address, see what's going on with this clown.
Read the articles. These "researchers" looked at trends based on 1996, 2000, 2004. I hate to say it, but trends change. If they didn't, we'd all be millionaires.
They compared counties with and without electronic voting, and they extrapolated based on the past. They might as well have said educated guesses.
The truth is, no one will know exactly how those people voted. There isn't a paper trail.
I smell too many tinfoil-hat wearing college liberals in this "research."
Isn't this best left to the authorities? When did the MPAA think that it was their job to be police? Maybe if they came up with better products, better pricing, different marketing ploys, piracy might go away?
Did you see the plasma screen above the stove? Poor planning? Move it 4 feet to the right or left, maybe a stylish swing arm of some type.
Think about it. It's a classic MS idea!
MS, instead of doing their own work, gets some scripts together to parse google searches into "MS" searches, and they declare a profit, celebrate, watch the stock price rise, and go home happy.
When Google figures out how they're doing it, they get their lawyers, MS gets their lawyers, they meet in court, they settle, MS still makes a profit, Google gets a little something for the effort, and MS still comes out ahead.
20 years of this behavior, and people haven't figured it out. MS put the screws to WordPerfect for 10+ years, and we all saw the settlement from a few days ago. $536 million? That's chump change when you figure out what Office made in the past 10 years.
The FCC is simply taking state governments out of the mix because different states will create different rules, and NO ONE will be happy. And we all know that California will do everything possible to screw EVERYONE up worse than anywhere else, because California politics is as crazy as it gets.
I look at it as a brief moment of sanity, because I fully expect the states to do SOME THING to tax the crap out of everything. They certainly don't want you doing anything for free. That wouldn't be right. We also need to be regulated in everything we do, for we can do nothing ourselves without getting into trouble, or offending someone else, and for GOD'S SAKE, we wouldn't want to offend anyone.
I know. I offended someone by using GOD in a sentence. It's something my parents said 39 times a day when I was a little kid. It's a TOUGH habit to break.
We live in a free economy. If you don't like it, don't shop there. If you got screwed, camp out and make sure you let the store manager and each and every employee know that you'll spread your bad stories across the country.
My mom worked in an interior design supply store, and she'd have customers come in on Friday, outfit their living room, and then on Monday, return everything. She knew what they were doing. But the owner of the store was unwilling to put a stop to it. The store went under after a few years.
How would you like to lose your job because of this? Do you blame the store? Do you call your Senator? No. I think you do your best to deter "bad" customers.
What they need to do is, for those frequent shoppers like the woman mentioned in the newspaper article (I did read the article), so that they see that she's a valued customer.
These businesses are focused on removing the bad WITHOUT retaining their valued customers.
Everyone learns that the moon is made of cheese in the cartoons. I bet they'll say it's from Wisconsin.
It's also the main reason that I don't trust mainstream news media. Forget the big 3 networks. They all take their agenda from the NYTimes.
I don't know if it's arrogance, but they can't seem to believe that we need to see anything else. If you've not noticed, the "news" is ALL doom and gloom. They realized that "good" doesn't sell advertising. And that's what it's all about. Advertising. If no one buys advertising, you've not got much of a business.
If you don't like what's happened at Google, why don't you ask them? Is it censorship? They are a publicly traded company, they fall under more scrutiny than they did before.
They're more like ... what Larry Niven called them in Oath of Fealty... waldos. Remote-control does not give them a brain, so how do the robotics laws apply?
If you're bashing in a door, and someone pulls a toy gun, a human police office is going to blast away. If a robot knocks down the door, and someone pulls a toy gun, the robot isn't going to care, it's going to wait and see, and the person with the toy gun is going to crap their pants.
Now, if someone gives this thing a program, sends it "over the next hill and shoot anything that moves", we're still not into artificial intelligence. It's just another guided weapon, and I don't see how it's called a robot anymore than a Tomahawk cruise missile is a "robot".
Yahoo's Politics page has been slow at times. The State of Ohio election pages have been slow. The State of Florida was slow until the networks called it a win for W. Everyone is busy, everyone is reloading, waiting for the newest updates, taking a lot of hits, and when something doesn't load, impatient people hit reload. And if someone posted the site on Slashdot, that compounds the problem.
You seem to have all the answers. Why don't you run for office?
Fresh water does slow down the gulf stream which restarts an ice age, which re-builds the ice shelves in Antarctica, North America, etc.
Saw it on Discovery Channel several weeks ago.
The iPod photo... in order to get photos on it, I have to download from my camera or CF card to the computer, then upload to the iPod. What is the point?
What was Apple thinking? How does this make me want to buy an iPod?
If Apple had 1/2 a brain, they'd have stuck a card reader in it. Or allowed a card reader to plug directly into it. I have 8 gig worth of CF cards. I'd love to be able to go to a shoot w/ just an iPod, my camera, and a few cards.
Instead, I'll buy an Image Tank or somethign else that's capable of downloading from memory cards.
Nice move Apple. You could have improved a good product.
Bush's statement makes sense. But, who in the House or the Senate is going to originate any changes? You don't think Hollings is going to serve up some amendments to this thing, do you? Hollings never understood the technology, and was bought off by lobbyists. Wait. Maybe he understood the techology, but just didn't give a damn?
The sad thing is, no matter who is elected, any changes will be so watered-down by the House and Senate that we might as well have no change at all. In fact, we're likely to be worse off than before. Lobbyists / special interest groups have far too much power in this country, and both parties are equally affected.
I have a pair of phones (one for the wife), unlimited web browsing, $15/month. I don't have a cable over to my laptop, but I keep thinking I might do it. I'm still waiting for a better Treo or something to come along.
It's typical of many companies. They do not want to compete on innovation, it's too risky.
They all think they can make the same product cheaper and/or better. There isn't much risk because the development costs are so low.
Another issue: Many people shop on price. They will overlook "useability" if they can save money, as long as it is compatible. People will deal with minutes/hours/days/weeks/years of pain and agony using a poorly designed product. They will defend their decision by saying, "Hey, I saved $9.00 by buying brand X." As long as it is compatible with the competition, people will buy on price. It's a sucker bet for many companies. Produce a cheap product, spend as little as possible on development, and undercut the competition. Many consumers don't care about the interface, they'd rather save money.
Another issue: We've become a throw-away society. Look at inkjet printers. It's almost the same price to buy a new inkjet with cartridges at Target/Walmart/Best Buy than it is to just buy new cartridges. Why would I spend $58 on 2 new cartridges when I can spend $60 and get a brand new printer with 2 cartridges?
These people also know that something new is usually just around the corner, and they don't want to spend a boatload of cash on something and be locked into the betamax of tomorrow.