from people who have fed it (and no, I haven't R'd TFA -- this is still SlashDot, isn't it?!?!) their own (genuine) papers or something they feel is "authentic", and I wonder if the reason is less the fault of the software and more the fault of (genuine/human) authors writing (intentionally or unintentionally) in such a style because it's perceived to be the way they're "supposed" to write. Maybe software like this will cause authors to put a little more thought into their craft and not allow themselves to just write on autopilot.
All they've gotta do is screw-up big time and miss Venus, then drop this guy on top of the "safe" parking spot... Should at least be good for a "double-or-nothing" bet.
Let's see if I understand what you're asking/expecting. I have a
36" tube television (yes, it's one heavy mofo, and I hereby declare a pox on the engineer who designed it without handles somewhere on it, but that's a slightly different rant...)
an inexpensive but completely satisfactory Dolby 5.1 surround system (which, to date, "Monsters Inc." seemed to take the best advantage of...go figure)
leather covered La-Z-Boy (rocking) recliner
a private bathroom of which I can avail myself at any time without missing any of a movie/show thanks to the handy-dandy pause button on my
personal remote control (which, btw, also allows me to relive however many exciting/hilarious/etc. seconds of whatever I may be watching as many times as I want...)
And, lastly (just to round-out my "experience") I have
two three-year-olds, so I can count on the floor being sticky and the air to be full of popcorn
And you want me to pay >1/2 the purchase price of a DVD to fight my way across town to stand in line to sit beside a teenage cell-phone-addict, behind the lady with the towering beehive and in front of the place-kicker for the Tennessee Titans to see a movie once? And you want me to wait even longer after the studios figure they've milked all they can from the theatre-going crowd to get to view it in the abovementioned (and, in case you missed this, preferrable) venue?
I bet they wonder why I rank them with telemarketers and spammers...
The whole point of a company making a "big announcement" is to get the media buzz that accompanies such theatrics. Apple's got it without taking any risk and without expending any effort; I say it'd be smarter (and more "mysterious", thereby generating even MORE buzz) to just let it pass quietly.
And then dazzle us the NEXT week (maybe a new iPod so small you need an electron microscope to see it...)
I'm, of course, too lazy to do a USPTO search, but I bet nobody's bothered to patent triple-clicks yet.
Of course, all that would do is push the need for quadruple-clicks, pentuple-clicks, sextuple-clicks, etc. right on up to infinituple-clicks (which Microsoft might as well patent anyway; that's what it takes to clear a BSOD.)
"...it is impossible for a majority of people to be above average."
This is just as incorrect as the following statement:
"It is impossible for a majority of people to be below average."
MY favorite short explanation of this fact is: remember that one darned guy in school who was always "blowing the bell curve" in classes with a teacher who could be persuaded to grade on one? 'nuff said.
Local coffee supplier Perk You! announced the discovery that for several weeks containers labeled "Caffeinated" had mistakenly been filled with DEcaffeinated coffee, but the error was caught and corrected earlier in the week and the correct product "should have already begun showing up in mugs all across the county" according to a company spokesman. Inquiries into exactly which of the company's customers may have been affected by the error went unanswered.
Bitter irony, Slashdot is thy home (or hangout...)
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"...Albright sent an e-mail to the FBI including all the evidence he collected about the attack..."
Apparently, Mr. Albright doesn't frequent Slashdot or watch CNN...
"IRS to allow tax preparers to offer 'non-disclosure' as a selling point"
or
"IRS to allow tax preparers to charge you extra to not sell your information"
Suddenly tax-prep gets more lucrative. Of course, if they ever come through with that "flat tax" all those guys'll be out of business overnight anyway (and then I can ride to work on a flying pig every morning...)
I've been waiting FEVERISHLY for someone to finally admit this, because I've been just ITCHING to go out and buy me one of them i-pods and an X-Box (or maybe a PlayStation!) I think I might pick up a DVD player and a laptop computer while I'm at it. Y'see, I hadn't learned my lessons from LP to 8-track to cassette and I just had to go out and buy a CD player, only to find (almost literally the next day) they were coming out with DVD's. That's when I vowed I wouldn't buy a SINGLE new thing until I got someone on record promising that that was IT, and now I have.
I've even heard something about satellite radio lately that was kind of interesting...and oh, HEY, I can finally ditch those "rabbit ears" and get satellite television!!
/sarcasm (mostly)
does this clown seriously expect us to believe there's not going to be another "next big thing" ever?!?! There've always been "next big things" and there always will be.
While I don't understand a single word of it, somehow I suspect you've managed to explain the "2. ???" part of "the master plan" that results in the "3. PROFIT!!" step!
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from people who have fed it (and no, I haven't R'd TFA -- this is still SlashDot, isn't it?!?!) their own (genuine) papers or something they feel is "authentic", and I wonder if the reason is less the fault of the software and more the fault of (genuine/human) authors writing (intentionally or unintentionally) in such a style because it's perceived to be the way they're "supposed" to write. Maybe software like this will cause authors to put a little more thought into their craft and not allow themselves to just write on autopilot.
Sorry, I know it's O.T. but I just couldn't resist.
btw, I'll be repeating my newfound favorite analogy until my wife's sick and tired of it, so thanks from her too.
But later, when I get back from lunch, I'm gonna have a whopper of a comment!
Maybe AOL was just trying to prove to China that they were willing and able...
And here's one you can buy at you-know-where (of course, some "after-market" scaling may be required if you want it to deflect bullets, etc.)
All they've gotta do is screw-up big time and miss Venus, then drop this guy on top of the "safe" parking spot... Should at least be good for a "double-or-nothing" bet.
What, you don't think the company asked the "participants" for a "deposit" on that specially-constructed cell phone?
The irony of asking for that as a deposit is that everyone is better off that they gave it up for any amount of time...
and it's "shut up"
of course, should anyone hold the patent on exploding then the whole exercise is moot...
God: "When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all."
From the Futurama episode "Godfellas"
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In ten days (that's less than a week!!)
I bet they wonder why I rank them with telemarketers and spammers...
The whole point of a company making a "big announcement" is to get the media buzz that accompanies such theatrics. Apple's got it without taking any risk and without expending any effort; I say it'd be smarter (and more "mysterious", thereby generating even MORE buzz) to just let it pass quietly.
And then dazzle us the NEXT week (maybe a new iPod so small you need an electron microscope to see it...)
Thanks to the publicity (and to his apparently endless ego) maybe we should say he's
"#6 with a bullet
I'm, of course, too lazy to do a USPTO search, but I bet nobody's bothered to patent triple-clicks yet.
Of course, all that would do is push the need for quadruple-clicks, pentuple-clicks, sextuple-clicks, etc. right on up to infinituple-clicks (which Microsoft might as well patent anyway; that's what it takes to clear a BSOD.)
This is just as incorrect as the following statement:
MY favorite short explanation of this fact is: remember that one darned guy in school who was always "blowing the bell curve" in classes with a teacher who could be persuaded to grade on one? 'nuff said.
eom (at least until "episode nine" of this post...)
or
Suddenly tax-prep gets more lucrative. Of course, if they ever come through with that "flat tax" all those guys'll be out of business overnight anyway (and then I can ride to work on a flying pig every morning...)
You've never gotten much e-mail, have you?
Neither is involved in 99% of the messages flying around the 'net.
Heck, even Nigerian princes don't bother to type and think in their e-mails!
Once again, I just couldn't help myself.
Hmmm, maybe smokin' that stuff's not only good for glaucoma patients' eyesight...
I've been waiting FEVERISHLY for someone to finally admit this, because I've been just ITCHING to go out and buy me one of them i-pods and an X-Box (or maybe a PlayStation!) I think I might pick up a DVD player and a laptop computer while I'm at it. Y'see, I hadn't learned my lessons from LP to 8-track to cassette and I just had to go out and buy a CD player, only to find (almost literally the next day) they were coming out with DVD's. That's when I vowed I wouldn't buy a SINGLE new thing until I got someone on record promising that that was IT , and now I have.
I've even heard something about satellite radio lately that was kind of interesting...and oh, HEY, I can finally ditch those "rabbit ears" and get satellite television!!
/sarcasm (mostly)
does this clown seriously expect us to believe there's not going to be another "next big thing" ever?!?! There've always been "next big things" and there always will be.
Or at least there'd better be.
If he knows what's good for him.
It goes something like this:
Congratulations!!