And the rule of thumb, even numbered trek films don't suck (as much)
I never understood that reasoning. The Search For Spock, while far from perfect was a lot more interesting and thrilling than that neo-hippie fest that was number 4. Besides, I got a kick out of seeing Night Court's Dan Fielding and Taxi's Jim Ignatowski as Klingons.
The first one wasn't so bad either, in that long, plodding 70's kind of way.I'll agree it wasn't strictly a Trek movie, though.
Ok, I'll bite. I can understand getting one Gmail invite, but how come so people around the web seem to have multiple ones?
Love to have one myself if you have any to spare, cheers.
What, there's customers out there with heads on their shoulders? What a shock!
Still, more power to Best Buy if they want to start discriminating against customers. I'm sure it's really going to make an impact on their bottom line.
Let's say I downloaded a really good file from wherever, and it's the best rendition of Long Tall Sally/animal porn clip/linux distro I've ever seen. I'll make an effort to spread that file around. Then, when I accidently delete it, I know I have a fairly good chance to recover it if I want.
Like you said, not to be used with critical data, but it does seem that the internet will never let anything die.
Wow, instead of a detailed rebuttal, I get the standard "why don't you send them money?" crap.
(BTW, you can't use 'Whatever' and 'net effect' in the same argument, it's kind of self-defeating.)
Anyway, the real effect is that all these huge sums of money you're theorizing about does not often reach 'poor people'. The money usually gets soaked up quite nicely at the government/buisness owner level.
If and when that money does get anywhere practical, it still comes with some very stringent demands, such as donations to a literacy campaign which help expedite the approval of a great big whopping factory. (I live in a 3rd world country and have seen it up close. You should have seen the money Enron was throwing around before they went bust, trying to set up shop here.)
This isn't charity, it's good business, and this is a big difference your "whatever" doesn't even come close to covering.
So, the "net effect" is some money thrown at a problem, mostly without any benefit to the people who need it the most. In the meantime, that new factory is chucking out pollution aplenty and hiring the locals at slave wages. Yeah, it's a great deal.
Remember, charity is a one-way street, not a way to maximize your profits.
More money has been sent to third world children by corporations than any telethon.
No it hasn't. It's been invested. Corporations don't send money, they expect a good return on their investment. There's not a corporate penny that's been "sent" without this expectation.
Agreed. Compared to Video games, DVDs and the Internet, TV has hardly been innovative.
I still think that 500+ channels is very likely though. Instead of trying to turn your channel into a kind of "portal" (exhibits A and B: MTV and VH1), I think the trick will be narrowcasting. They're doing this in Europe already. Kerrang, a UK rock/metal magazine have their own channel devoted to...rock and metal videos, and not much else.
Couple with true a la carte ordering, you'll see channels proliferate wildly IMO
That's not to say ipodlounge.com and the other in-depth ipod fan sites aren't useful resources. But this book is at least those sites' peer in terms of useful information.
And there lies the rub - who would pay for dead tree when the info is available online for free? Not to say this book doesn't have an audience or a market, considering the success of the iPod, but they're certainly not on Slashdot.
One of the fiercest defenders of its own IP is giving away 7 patents? I don't think so. There must be more to the story, as in they never owned the patents in the first place.
Okay, I RTFR, and they all say the same thing; The problem isn't with the game, but the fact that the "gaming world" around it has changed.
Nobody I know who played Driver and enjoyed it (myself included), could have given a toss about the storyline, or the boring non-driving bits. We just loved the driving: the physics, the destrucability of the cars, a dozen police cars, sounding like the mutant offspring of Christine chasing after you like the hounds of hell.
We loved the replay value with the minigames and the unlockable cars.
In a nutshell, all these reviews are great news to those of us who bought the first 2 games: It's more of the same, only much prettier. Who cares if GTA is a much more immersive game, blah blah blah. I just want to drive like a bat out hell and outrun the cops as long as I can!
Ditto here. Thank you very f*cking much, Yahoo. I just got my sister, 3000 miles away, to puzzle her way through Yahoo messenger, and now I have to hunt down and reisntall the frigging official client just to IM her!
It's got nothing to do with ads or bloat (at least for me.) It's about connecting to as many people as you want without running a ton of apps, cluttering your desktop, etc.
IM delevopers need to get on the ball with this - you can't expect everybody to just stick with one network, that's ridiculous. I know people on Yahoo, AIM and MSN, and that's under a dozen people. I'm sure there's plenty others who use multi-IM apps to their full potential. Remember, the watchword here is communication, not segregation.
Support of programs like Gaim and Trillian would be beneficial to AOL, Yahoo and others, IMO. After all, there will still be plenty of regular people using the standalone app, while us geeks multitask. And I would gladly deal with ads if it meant Gaim was officially supported, and I'm sure many others would too (although an ad-blocker would be developed and widely used, but that situation exists for the standalone clients too).
Besides, it's not like we're going to give up. We'll take the few-week hit in compatibility, and an update will come out and keep us set for a few months. The first netowrk to work with us on this will reap the benefits, and all you need is for one of them to break for the rest to follow suit.
Parent is absolutely right, this sector of the market is nowhere near enough mature. We're still, IMO, in the iPod "phase" of things. I reckon we're stilla t least a year away from a decent (ie stabel and feature-rich) sub-$100 device that streams everything one could desire.
To my mind, the slimp3 devices seem to fit this bill, but the price will have to come down some before they can start cornering the market.
The FM transmitter idea is a good one, but even if it performs flawlessly, it's still a stop-gap measure.
Bottom line: Hack something together as cheap as you can for right now, but don't settle down with anything permanent just yet.
Been tooling around in PS for about 5 years now, and I would love be involved in helping create software, especially since I've seen far too many good programs that look like refried crap.
Aside from the exposure (minute as it may be), the challenge of doing something new would be fantastic. Let me know if there's any way I could help.
Everybody bitches about ST, but some of the best work done in that universe was in one of its least-known incarnations.
With fully-fleshed characters, complex (but not convoluted) story arcs, DS9 is by far the best Star Trek series to come along since the original.
Oh yeah, and it helped that the lead seemed to combine all the best (and certainly most interesting) traits of his predecessors, Kirk and Picard. Sisko was a thinker, but never afraid to leave his bootprint on someone's ass if the situation required it.
Is that really fair to say? Sure, NASA has had its share of red-tape screwups, and some tragic erros, but don't overlook what they *have* done.
You mean catastrophic loss of 40% of their shuttle fleet?
Not to mention, as another respondent pointed out, their complete animus to any kind of competition. I can't believe how badly they derided Denis Tito being the first space tourist. Anybody with a brain at NASA would have jumped on the idea and started a whole new revenue stream.
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Sweet, looking forward to it. This is exactly where an RSS reader should be IMO, built into the browser. Just as long as it doesn't add to bloat. :)
I never understood that reasoning. The Search For Spock, while far from perfect was a lot more interesting and thrilling than that neo-hippie fest that was number 4. Besides, I got a kick out of seeing Night Court's Dan Fielding and Taxi's Jim Ignatowski as Klingons.
The first one wasn't so bad either, in that long, plodding 70's kind of way.I'll agree it wasn't strictly a Trek movie, though.
Ok, I'll bite. I can understand getting one Gmail invite, but how come so people around the web seem to have multiple ones? Love to have one myself if you have any to spare, cheers.
Jesus, you're not kidding. I've had a nice cracked version of Flash 5 for my Mac for years. Have I even installed it? Have I fuck.
My post was a little ambiguous, but I really couldn't care less, for either party, as this is really a tempest in a teacup. Nothing will come of this.
Still, more power to Best Buy if they want to start discriminating against customers. I'm sure it's really going to make an impact on their bottom line.
Let's say I downloaded a really good file from wherever, and it's the best rendition of Long Tall Sally/animal porn clip/linux distro I've ever seen. I'll make an effort to spread that file around. Then, when I accidently delete it, I know I have a fairly good chance to recover it if I want.
Like you said, not to be used with critical data, but it does seem that the internet will never let anything die.
(BTW, you can't use 'Whatever' and 'net effect' in the same argument, it's kind of self-defeating.)
Anyway, the real effect is that all these huge sums of money you're theorizing about does not often reach 'poor people'. The money usually gets soaked up quite nicely at the government/buisness owner level.
If and when that money does get anywhere practical, it still comes with some very stringent demands, such as donations to a literacy campaign which help expedite the approval of a great big whopping factory. (I live in a 3rd world country and have seen it up close. You should have seen the money Enron was throwing around before they went bust, trying to set up shop here.)
This isn't charity, it's good business, and this is a big difference your "whatever" doesn't even come close to covering.
So, the "net effect" is some money thrown at a problem, mostly without any benefit to the people who need it the most. In the meantime, that new factory is chucking out pollution aplenty and hiring the locals at slave wages. Yeah, it's a great deal.
Remember, charity is a one-way street, not a way to maximize your profits.
No it hasn't. It's been invested. Corporations don't send money, they expect a good return on their investment. There's not a corporate penny that's been "sent" without this expectation.
I still think that 500+ channels is very likely though. Instead of trying to turn your channel into a kind of "portal" (exhibits A and B: MTV and VH1), I think the trick will be narrowcasting. They're doing this in Europe already. Kerrang, a UK rock/metal magazine have their own channel devoted to...rock and metal videos, and not much else.
Couple with true a la carte ordering, you'll see channels proliferate wildly IMO
Well, the good bits, anyway. A couple pages will do.
And there lies the rub - who would pay for dead tree when the info is available online for free? Not to say this book doesn't have an audience or a market, considering the success of the iPod, but they're certainly not on Slashdot.
One of the fiercest defenders of its own IP is giving away 7 patents? I don't think so. There must be more to the story, as in they never owned the patents in the first place.
Oh yeah, the RIAA and record companies have been such pioneers when it comes to that business model.
Dude, this is Slashdot, of course it is!
Nobody I know who played Driver and enjoyed it (myself included), could have given a toss about the storyline, or the boring non-driving bits. We just loved the driving: the physics, the destrucability of the cars, a dozen police cars, sounding like the mutant offspring of Christine chasing after you like the hounds of hell.
We loved the replay value with the minigames and the unlockable cars.
In a nutshell, all these reviews are great news to those of us who bought the first 2 games: It's more of the same, only much prettier. Who cares if GTA is a much more immersive game, blah blah blah. I just want to drive like a bat out hell and outrun the cops as long as I can!
Ditto here. Thank you very f*cking much, Yahoo. I just got my sister, 3000 miles away, to puzzle her way through Yahoo messenger, and now I have to hunt down and reisntall the frigging official client just to IM her!
IM delevopers need to get on the ball with this - you can't expect everybody to just stick with one network, that's ridiculous. I know people on Yahoo, AIM and MSN, and that's under a dozen people. I'm sure there's plenty others who use multi-IM apps to their full potential. Remember, the watchword here is communication, not segregation.
Support of programs like Gaim and Trillian would be beneficial to AOL, Yahoo and others, IMO. After all, there will still be plenty of regular people using the standalone app, while us geeks multitask. And I would gladly deal with ads if it meant Gaim was officially supported, and I'm sure many others would too (although an ad-blocker would be developed and widely used, but that situation exists for the standalone clients too).
Besides, it's not like we're going to give up. We'll take the few-week hit in compatibility, and an update will come out and keep us set for a few months. The first netowrk to work with us on this will reap the benefits, and all you need is for one of them to break for the rest to follow suit.
The Muzak version of course. Why limit it to just elevators?
To my mind, the slimp3 devices seem to fit this bill, but the price will have to come down some before they can start cornering the market.
The FM transmitter idea is a good one, but even if it performs flawlessly, it's still a stop-gap measure.
Bottom line: Hack something together as cheap as you can for right now, but don't settle down with anything permanent just yet.
Been tooling around in PS for about 5 years now, and I would love be involved in helping create software, especially since I've seen far too many good programs that look like refried crap.
Aside from the exposure (minute as it may be), the challenge of doing something new would be fantastic. Let me know if there's any way I could help.
Everybody bitches about ST, but some of the best work done in that universe was in one of its least-known incarnations.
With fully-fleshed characters, complex (but not convoluted) story arcs, DS9 is by far the best Star Trek series to come along since the original.
Oh yeah, and it helped that the lead seemed to combine all the best (and certainly most interesting) traits of his predecessors, Kirk and Picard. Sisko was a thinker, but never afraid to leave his bootprint on someone's ass if the situation required it.
No, because I would never compare a homebrew effort with one so massively funded and staffed as NASA, simple as that.
You mean catastrophic loss of 40% of their shuttle fleet?
Not to mention, as another respondent pointed out, their complete animus to any kind of competition. I can't believe how badly they derided Denis Tito being the first space tourist. Anybody with a brain at NASA would have jumped on the idea and started a whole new revenue stream.
I learned everything I needed to know about driving from Mario Kart!
Although it can be a real bitch finding red turtle shells this time of year.