Screw space, when are they going to break out the gutterbot to clean up all the crap in the neighborhood, keep rat population down, make sure every car on the street has the proper air pressure, and return stray pets.
Maybe I'm crazy but cleaning up space is alot like keeping an impeccible front lawn and living in 3 feet of trash.
How about that POST beep? Hey dummy I pushed the button I know you're powering up.
That sound the computer makes only when I type. If I ever find the source of those annoying clicks I'm calling tech support.
That fan on the back, when will PC manufacturers make a machine for my ultra senstive bat ears? We must think of some PC catchphrase for this, Autonomous Audible Attack Syndrome anyone? "I'd love to see Stereolab tonight but my AAS is acting up."
The sounds web pages make. Why would I want to hear some Don Henley song, let alone in crappy MIDI synth form.
ICQ foghorn, just in case a tanker is about to crash into my apartment as I decide to chat with other anti-social types.
The article answers this question, the analog part of the machine (monitors speakers) are isolated from the digital parts. Heat from the monitor rises up away from the chip/MB and the chip is cooled through traditional Apple vent design.
BTW, there's no PC noise when wearing headphones. Sure beats $80 in cables to hide your PC in the closet.
Where does Jamie get this prejudice from? Is a brand label from a company I know to be fairly ethical so bad, especially considering that this lander may not be possible without them. Live video from the moon, wow this is very exciting.
Horrendus? The lander is just about the finest looking space vehicle I've seen in a long time, especially with its retro 50's styling.
The less people who think space if just for elitist academics and big government the better off we are. Most/. readers have no patience with crass-commercialism like the inflated prices of cheap goods *cough* Stabucks, but this is a venture that will be beneficial to consumers and has nothing to do with shameless marketing and shoddy products, they aren't planning on projecting commercials down to Earth.
Whatver lands on the moon will have some symbol on it, be it a NASA globe or a radioshack R, just because MS is evil doesn't mean you should be projecting your ignorant prejudice on this product.
The more advanced FPS's get the more they become like the Photon game from the 80's with the slight difference that the out of shape and obese can run as fast as anyone else.
If you can't tell the difference between fantasy and reality maybe you shouldn't be playing violent videgames. I'm not one to take the 'games cause bad things' position, but a responsible person should know how sensitive they are and make the decision to participate or not to participate instead of just some general moralizing.
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They mention COPPA in the article and how they supposedly removed the DSS program after it was passed, but that's not my point. Why do politicians rally over laws like COPPA but do almost nothing for consumer rights? Sure helping the kids is nice, but those kids are going to grow up and deal with this crap on an adult level. Where's the FTC then?
What really gets me is that this kind of legislation isn't passed because politicians really care anything about privacy its passed because "Fighting for children's rights" looks so good for next election's commercials.
Considering most consumers mostly use a browser and its plugins its has the utmost importance especially considering its the only way most people experience the Internet.
Maybe no one will be able to write another browser if MS's embrace, extend, and extinguish strategy keeps working for HTML.
As for being 'stupid' to focus on, if you bothered to watch the case you'd see that MS's muscling of the OEM's to keep from offering Netscape is part of the reason why they are an abusive monopoly.
I would much prefer a 50% MacOS/50% Windows home market with an almost non-existant Linux, for the sake of competition compared to the 90%Windows/9%Mac/1%Linux (or whatever the real stats are) with the false hope that Linux is a Windows-killer. Well it isn't and it may never be.
What the author does get right in this article, and it isn't much, is that the breakup of MS will probably allow a very popular OS to get a real footing in the Intel home PC market and the Mac looks like a real contender. He also makes the simple realization that Linux is not ready, if it ever will be, for entry-level home PC buyers. Maybe when, say, trying to change screen resolution can be done by an amatuer without hosing the entire system is possible I might jump on the Linux for everyone bandwagon.
Maybe in a couple years the majority of posts will be about how much more evil Apple and Jobs are compared to not-such-a-bad-guy Gates.
See the best part is you wouldn't even know you're in pink poo, everything would be completely normal for you. I've seen the Matrix about 3 times and I still can't see why the agents could ever be considered bad guys. Cypher was the only person in that movie with a clue.
Yeah its real fun to poke fun at crass commercialism, Hollywood, and Scientologists but the real issue is that Sci-Fi simply doesn't translate well to the big screen. How many watchable American sci-fi live-action movies are there out there? Maybe 15-20 at most in the history of film-making. The rest suffer from studio compromises trying to keep the lowest-common denominator entertained and not confused. Add in the belief that pretty graphics and big explosions make a story, its a miracle that any decent sc-fi movies come out of the studio meatgrinder.
A better analogy would be a wire communication than an actual letter. Lets say if I was to use a voice changer to fool people about who I really am and use some method to make the call harder to trace for illegal reasons(promote my pyramid scheme or avoiding prosecution for stealing computer time) then I'm breaking the law for giving false information about myself.
Now say I do the same thing because I want to use a pseudonym but not for illegal reasons (i dont want so-and-so to know im checking into this hotel) then its all fine and dandy.
Obviously if Napster lets them continue selling Napster gear they can lose rights to their own trademark. To avoid looking hypocritical, not to mention a legal mess, they should have offered to write up a contract with Offspring's people to sell the shirts at no cost. People who are fond of wearing corporate trademarks on T-shirts win and Napster keeps its "hands-off" image.
Who know this might still happen as the lawsuit hasn't been issued yet.
Why is this moderated up so high? It is basically wrong. We could apply the same question to sillysally.
Exactly where does using slashdot.org make proper use of TLDs suddenly so wrong?
Using.net.org..com.edu properly is a great idea regardless of what sites you post to. Trying to create hypocrisy where there is none isn't very convincing even when you ignore that slashdot now owns both.org and.com and it started as a non-profit.
Its also fitting to mention the grammer of the original poster when your post is little more than a collection of rhetorical questions and run on sentances. If you think the OP was inarticulate you should re-read your own posts.
How about commenting on the issue instead of the poster and the moderators for a change.
Isn't the only reason the word Barbie is such a strong reference for women because of the poplularity of that stupid toy? Or maybe you're using the word Barbie as in the famous Nazi butcher? What are you planning on doing for HTML just lift it from the mattel site?
Its one thing to have a legitimate trademark issue, its another to demand that so-and-so evil corporation is taking your rights, especially in a country where the trademark holder is obligated to defend every violation thats brought to its attention.
Considering these facts, the best thing you could do is use a new non-sense word or simply words that aren't used by a big company who has had a history of defending their trademark.
You're only setting yourself up for a fall and even if mattel didn't care, once its brought to their attention they have to do something about it. Blaming Mattel for the law isn't going to get you anywhere, well except slashdot.
No one is telling you to go be a hermit, but what about finding something you find fulfilling, learning about it, being creative with it, and if you choose starting a career in it. Instead studying something just so you can get your foot in the door so you can "preserve your lifestyle."
You can choose to do that, but knocking others who do interesting things in college like the guy this article or assuming everyone goes to college so they can buy a BMW is about is simply stupid.
The main point of computer games is to allow us to experience things that we can't do in real life.
Naww, the point of a is to game provide a good time, look at the popularity of fishing and hunting games. Not only do people enjoy them they sell quite a bit too.
I really like these simple simulators, like that DJ game for PSX, its fun to play at being a martial artist or a DJ than it is to actually put the huge effort to become one. Its a game, after all.
I think the main reasons people don't turn ivory into the fur industry is because:
1. Elephants are expensive to aquire.
2. They don't breed quickly nor do they mature quickly.
3. The amount of feed and pens sizeable enough to hold a community of elephants is really expensive.
4. To get all the ivory off an animal you have to kill it, no resale value/donate to reservations PR value.
Take these into consideration with the current price of ivory and you'll find that it simply isn't cost efficient. To have a nice shiny carved ivory knife handle you need to have poachers ready to slay elephants in the wild into near extiction as they have done and are still trying to do. That is cost-efficient.
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Screw space, when are they going to break out the gutterbot to clean up all the crap in the neighborhood, keep rat population down, make sure every car on the street has the proper air pressure, and return stray pets.
Maybe I'm crazy but cleaning up space is alot like keeping an impeccible front lawn and living in 3 feet of trash.
How about that POST beep? Hey dummy I pushed the button I know you're powering up.
That sound the computer makes only when I type. If I ever find the source of those annoying clicks I'm calling tech support.
That fan on the back, when will PC manufacturers make a machine for my ultra senstive bat ears? We must think of some PC catchphrase for this, Autonomous Audible Attack Syndrome anyone? "I'd love to see Stereolab tonight but my AAS is acting up."
The sounds web pages make. Why would I want to hear some Don Henley song, let alone in crappy MIDI synth form.
ICQ foghorn, just in case a tanker is about to crash into my apartment as I decide to chat with other anti-social types.
The article answers this question, the analog part of the machine (monitors speakers) are isolated from the digital parts. Heat from the monitor rises up away from the chip/MB and the chip is cooled through traditional Apple vent design.
BTW, there's no PC noise when wearing headphones. Sure beats $80 in cables to hide your PC in the closet.
Someone's taking a hint from Prince Sultan Salman Al-Saud who bought a space shuttle ride in '88.
Where does Jamie get this prejudice from? Is a brand label from a company I know to be fairly ethical so bad, especially considering that this lander may not be possible without them. Live video from the moon, wow this is very exciting.
/. readers have no patience with crass-commercialism like the inflated prices of cheap goods *cough* Stabucks, but this is a venture that will be beneficial to consumers and has nothing to do with shameless marketing and shoddy products, they aren't planning on projecting commercials down to Earth.
Horrendus? The lander is just about the finest looking space vehicle I've seen in a long time, especially with its retro 50's styling.
The less people who think space if just for elitist academics and big government the better off we are. Most
Whatver lands on the moon will have some symbol on it, be it a NASA globe or a radioshack R, just because MS is evil doesn't mean you should be projecting your ignorant prejudice on this product.
This format sounds a lot crappier than the commecial yet free vqf format.
The more advanced FPS's get the more they become like the Photon game from the 80's with the slight difference that the out of shape and obese can run as fast as anyone else.
If you can't tell the difference between fantasy and reality maybe you shouldn't be playing violent videgames. I'm not one to take the 'games cause bad things' position, but a responsible person should know how sensitive they are and make the decision to participate or not to participate instead of just some general moralizing.
They mention COPPA in the article and how they supposedly removed the DSS program after it was passed, but that's not my point. Why do politicians rally over laws like COPPA but do almost nothing for consumer rights? Sure helping the kids is nice, but those kids are going to grow up and deal with this crap on an adult level. Where's the FTC then?
What really gets me is that this kind of legislation isn't passed because politicians really care anything about privacy its passed because "Fighting for children's rights" looks so good for next election's commercials.
Oh I can't wait to see the first time the astronats use it for some silly prank, and they will its great PR. Here are some possibilities:
"Who's piloting the shuttle!?!"
A close up of a robot arm putting a human hand in warm water.
"Who's been in the bathroom for so damn long?!"
The first outer space robot human back massage.
A very synchronized dance routine when NASA springs for 2 of these.
Please, take the time to visit the real world and how real business works.
It would just kill some people to admit they didn't read the article and take the nicely offered clue, instead we get more defensive posts.
Talk about your unltimate web page defacement, I'm sure usenet will be buzzing with script kiddies looking for Mac hacks tomarrow.
Considering most consumers mostly use a browser and its plugins its has the utmost importance especially considering its the only way most people experience the Internet.
Maybe no one will be able to write another browser if MS's embrace, extend, and extinguish strategy keeps working for HTML.
As for being 'stupid' to focus on, if you bothered to watch the case you'd see that MS's muscling of the OEM's to keep from offering Netscape is part of the reason why they are an abusive monopoly.
Like someone already posted "Bias? On slashdot?!"
I would much prefer a 50% MacOS/50% Windows home market with an almost non-existant Linux, for the sake of competition compared to the 90%Windows/9%Mac/1%Linux (or whatever the real stats are) with the false hope that Linux is a Windows-killer. Well it isn't and it may never be.
What the author does get right in this article, and it isn't much, is that the breakup of MS will probably allow a very popular OS to get a real footing in the Intel home PC market and the Mac looks like a real contender. He also makes the simple realization that Linux is not ready, if it ever will be, for entry-level home PC buyers. Maybe when, say, trying to change screen resolution can be done by an amatuer without hosing the entire system is possible I might jump on the Linux for everyone bandwagon.
Maybe in a couple years the majority of posts will be about how much more evil Apple and Jobs are compared to not-such-a-bad-guy Gates.
See the best part is you wouldn't even know you're in pink poo, everything would be completely normal for you. I've seen the Matrix about 3 times and I still can't see why the agents could ever be considered bad guys. Cypher was the only person in that movie with a clue.
Yeah its real fun to poke fun at crass commercialism, Hollywood, and Scientologists but the real issue is that Sci-Fi simply doesn't translate well to the big screen. How many watchable American sci-fi live-action movies are there out there? Maybe 15-20 at most in the history of film-making. The rest suffer from studio compromises trying to keep the lowest-common denominator entertained and not confused. Add in the belief that pretty graphics and big explosions make a story, its a miracle that any decent sc-fi movies come out of the studio meatgrinder.
A better analogy would be a wire communication than an actual letter. Lets say if I was to use a voice changer to fool people about who I really am and use some method to make the call harder to trace for illegal reasons(promote my pyramid scheme or avoiding prosecution for stealing computer time) then I'm breaking the law for giving false information about myself.
Now say I do the same thing because I want to use a pseudonym but not for illegal reasons (i dont want so-and-so to know im checking into this hotel) then its all fine and dandy.
Obviously if Napster lets them continue selling Napster gear they can lose rights to their own trademark. To avoid looking hypocritical, not to mention a legal mess, they should have offered to write up a contract with Offspring's people to sell the shirts at no cost. People who are fond of wearing corporate trademarks on T-shirts win and Napster keeps its "hands-off" image.
Who know this might still happen as the lawsuit hasn't been issued yet.
Why is this moderated up so high? It is basically wrong. We could apply the same question to sillysally.
.net .org. .com .edu properly is a great idea regardless of what sites you post to. Trying to create hypocrisy where there is none isn't very convincing even when you ignore that slashdot now owns both .org and .com and it started as a non-profit.
Exactly where does using slashdot.org make proper use of TLDs suddenly so wrong?
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Its also fitting to mention the grammer of the original poster when your post is little more than a collection of rhetorical questions and run on sentances. If you think the OP was inarticulate you should re-read your own posts.
How about commenting on the issue instead of the poster and the moderators for a change.
Isn't the only reason the word Barbie is such a strong reference for women because of the poplularity of that stupid toy? Or maybe you're using the word Barbie as in the famous Nazi butcher? What are you planning on doing for HTML just lift it from the mattel site?
Its one thing to have a legitimate trademark issue, its another to demand that so-and-so evil corporation is taking your rights, especially in a country where the trademark holder is obligated to defend every violation thats brought to its attention.
Considering these facts, the best thing you could do is use a new non-sense word or simply words that aren't used by a big company who has had a history of defending their trademark.
You're only setting yourself up for a fall and even if mattel didn't care, once its brought to their attention they have to do something about it. Blaming Mattel for the law isn't going to get you anywhere, well except slashdot.
No one is telling you to go be a hermit, but what about finding something you find fulfilling, learning about it, being creative with it, and if you choose starting a career in it. Instead studying something just so you can get your foot in the door so you can "preserve your lifestyle."
You can choose to do that, but knocking others who do interesting things in college like the guy this article or assuming everyone goes to college so they can buy a BMW is about is simply stupid.
Its pretty sad when people view education as nothing more but a means to the end of getting ahead in the rat race.
The main point of computer games is to allow us to experience things that we can't do in real life.
Naww, the point of a is to game provide a good time, look at the popularity of fishing and hunting games. Not only do people enjoy them they sell quite a bit too.
I really like these simple simulators, like that DJ game for PSX, its fun to play at being a martial artist or a DJ than it is to actually put the huge effort to become one. Its a game, after all.
The 'electric' version for you ladies.
I can see the infomercial now:
"You mean this would actually make my girls want to use a computer?!"
I think the main reasons people don't turn ivory into the fur industry is because:
1. Elephants are expensive to aquire.
2. They don't breed quickly nor do they mature quickly.
3. The amount of feed and pens sizeable enough to hold a community of elephants is really expensive.
4. To get all the ivory off an animal you have to kill it, no resale value/donate to reservations PR value.
Take these into consideration with the current price of ivory and you'll find that it simply isn't cost efficient. To have a nice shiny carved ivory knife handle you need to have poachers ready to slay elephants in the wild into near extiction as they have done and are still trying to do. That is cost-efficient.