A trailer that gives away neither plot nor ending, but still makes you want to see the movie.
Shouldn't this be how all trailers are made?
Nope, sorry, this isn't a trailer. As it clearly says when you go to the site, this is a Teaser, which, while similar to a trailer, is not the same as a trailer.
This is the first hype of many and it's supposed to get you excited about the movie. Looks like it worked.:)
People will pay to get a new TLD, no matter what it is. This intentionally elitist one will be no different. What I'm wondering is what will happen when someone registers a trademark in the.pro domain.
Would Id get Quake.pro or would someone who won the world championship?
This is actually kind of the problem with employment at will: management can hand down whatever terms they want, and it's their way or the highway.
But it works both ways. I've seen highly skilled employees do the same thing. One sysadmin quit for about three days until they hired him back at a huge increase in salary. Granted this was back before we had so many tech workers looking for jobs.:)
I've always heard that in my state, KY, that everyone is an "at will" employee. We don't have to give 2 weeks notice or anything (though, if you want a good recommedation you do) and that you could quit or be fired without reason. What's are the laws like in other states?
replace the numbered buttons with a GameBoyAdvance style LCD screen
Do you mean make it with touchscreen buttons for dialing? That will displease a lot of people who prefer to touch-dial instead of looking at the screen.
Of course you can't please everyone, which is why we have so many totally different devices now.
"that lets you plug in a normal POTS type telephone"
That's the big deal here. I wish I'd had one of these in college when I was making long distance phone calls to my girlfriend. We used IRC and other chat things sometimes, but the good old telephone was much prefered.
This article's not about the DMCA. This is about the Disney's Copying Mickey Act, a bill introduced by Sen. Hollings that prevents anyone from duplicating DVD content without permission.:)
In fact, the last time I moved we had our phone service turned off at the end of the month and the DSL service turned off a week later (when we actually moved.) The DSL still worked without phone service, so it is entirely possible.
Kentucky just passed a similar law. You can even sign-up for the no call list online. It goes into effect in mid-July.
Unfortunately, there are some exceptions to the No-Call list, including:
3. Calls from businesses with whom you have a prior or existing relationship;
Which rules out the annoying Verizon DSL calls I'm getting now because I use them for local phone service. Two or three times each month they call to offer me DSL service that I'm already getting from them.
Well that's assuming that every blank cd bought is being used for music piracy. If you account for software piracy, your $10 per cd retail figure is low and you only need something like 2 million (wildly guessing) copies.
Also, the argument that you wouldn't have bought it if you didn't steal it doesn't really get accounted for. It's like when a store's reporting something stolen: they assume that they would have sold it for full retail price, not that it would sit there until it was marked 75% off.
>>The earth's temp. is rising NOW. >We don't know that. In fact, we know that in the last 23 years, for which there is a global satellite temperature record, >there has been no noted warming whatsoever.
Already at this early point in the comment postings, I've seen you quote this at least twice. Please provide a link or reference to this statment. In other words, please prove it.
About a year ago I saw The Wizard of Oz on DirecTv (I think it was AMC) with the Dark Side of the Moon as the alternate audio broadcast. It was a great idea and shows that, if this becomes popular, you might see it on something like HBO in the future.
Anyone else ever hear of a cool alternate audio broadcast?
Charging a recycling fee is only going to make people throw their computers (and worse monitors) into the trash
While that may be true for fees for getting rid of computers, the fee this article is talking about charging is when you buy the computer. If a few dollars more is going to make someone dump their new system into the trash on the way out of the store, I'm not sure it's the politicians that are misguided.
Didn't some beer company demo this thing during the Superbowl??
Re:Why tell us where to buy it...
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Did I miss something?
Haven't you ever seen a bad movie review for a movie that you enjoyed? One critic's opinion shouldn't stop you from checking something out for yourself.
For people who hit the cap, the billing model would simply divide the $20 paid by the customer by the number of pages viewed and pay the sites whatever amount that turned out to be per page.
So, if I know I'm going to hit the cap during a month (say on the 29th), I could just visit my own server the same number of times and get half of the money back?
For example:
Normal Page views by the 29th = 4000
With their formula, each server should get $0.005 per page. If I add 4000 views to my own server, that's 8000 total views.
$20 / 8000 = $0.0025 for each page.
4000 * $0.0025 = $10.
That's $10 for THEM and $10 for ME. The more I view my own server the more of my $20 I get back.
Two things came from this DCIT decision, one good and one bad.
The Bad: Dialpad was blocked. The story was published. hubcap (the server holding The Tiger's article) slows down even more due to everyone in the world visiting from Slashdot making life hell in Clemson.
The Good: Our school gets "recognized" and we get to see how many of us are on Slashdot.:)
Seriously though, if they wanted to improve the network speed and cut down on potential legal problems, they should have been consistent and blocked all of the porn sites from the freshman dorms. After all, they are technically responsible for all the minors that download porn all day. Though I guess that could be classified as educational for some of them.
Once you start blocking some of it, you have to block everything or you're responsible for what you left out
Some of these laws are (apparently) real
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At least one state, Kentucky DOES have references to the actual written laws. The one about baby chicks is disturbing when you think that they actually had to ban painting small animals (I assume for Easter). Like many other people, probably including the creator of this web site, I used to have a book of these kinds of laws.
In my book, an explanation was given for some of the dumb laws. My favorite was the law in some city (in Indiana I think) that made it illegal to exclaim "Oh Boy!" on a city street. It seems that there was this old guy that used to get young lads to do yard work and other odd jobs by saying "Oh boy, can you come help" or "Oh boy, would you like to work for me". Two teenagers heard the guy and harrassed him by shouting "Oh Boy!" whenever they saw the man. The man had some clout with the lawmakers of this small town, and a law was written to make shouting a very common phrase illegal.
Kentucky Specific laws: I used to live in Lexington and I've heard the ice cream cone in your pocket law since I was a kid, so it's either probably true, or a really popular urban legend. There is a statue of two little kids eating one ice cream downtown. I think of that law everytime I pass the statue. I think I might look up the law that says anyone who has been drinking is "sober" until he or she "cannot hold onto the ground." and file that one as a possible defense later in life.;)
>The problem I have with this solution is that you may start coming close to a wall, so you are fooled into walking parallel to it, then you >suddenly strafe when attacked, bashing into the wall.
Instead of just turning you 90 degrees to avoid the wall when you get there, one solution would be to keep you in the center of the room, even when you are nowhere near the wall. Imagine a big room with say, five feet square of usable space and five feet of "trickery" space. That way you'd always have that extra little room to go before you bash into a wall.
It would be fun to try to beat the system and see if you could touch the wall in one of these things. I think of that episode (aired again recently) of Star Trek Voyager where they go into a wormhole and everyone sees what they want to see (except 7 of 9, of course) but the wormhole is really a "monster" that's trying to eat them. When they finally escape, it turns out that they only thought they'd escaped and were really still inside. Any system that could fool someone that was TRYING to hit a wall that they knew was really there would be impressive.
All this talk of tricking the user reminds me of The Memory of Earth by Orson Scott Card. They solve the man's destructive nature problem by inventing a machine that makes your mind drift and think of something else when you think of a technological advance that would lead to weapons. In the book, our hero realizes that it's a trick and has to use willpower to keep focused on the task at hand. It's an excellent book as are the rest of the books in the Homecoming Saga (5 books).
Slashdot Mirror
I don't know about the author of the article, but I'm pretty sure I'm using more than 10% of my brain.
I thought you were wrong, but found that this is a common misconception.
A trailer that gives away neither plot nor ending, but still makes you want to see the movie.
:)
Shouldn't this be how all trailers are made?
Nope, sorry, this isn't a trailer. As it clearly says when you go to the site, this is a Teaser, which, while similar to a trailer, is not the same as a trailer.
This is the first hype of many and it's supposed to get you excited about the movie. Looks like it worked.
Oh no, I'm suddenly inspired to make my own song since the site is:
Slash Dot Ted
No one will pay $300 for a .pro domain.
.pro domain.
People will pay to get a new TLD, no matter what it is. This intentionally elitist one will be no different. What I'm wondering is what will happen when someone registers a trademark in the
Would Id get Quake.pro or would someone who won the world championship?
This is actually kind of the problem with employment at will: management can hand down whatever terms they want, and it's their way or the highway.
:)
But it works both ways. I've seen highly skilled employees do the same thing. One sysadmin quit for about three days until they hired him back at a huge increase in salary. Granted this was back before we had so many tech workers looking for jobs.
I've always heard that in my state, KY, that everyone is an "at will" employee. We don't have to give 2 weeks notice or anything (though, if you want a good recommedation you do) and that you could quit or be fired without reason. What's are the laws like in other states?
replace the numbered buttons with a GameBoyAdvance style LCD screen
Do you mean make it with touchscreen buttons for dialing? That will displease a lot of people who prefer to touch-dial instead of looking at the screen.
Of course you can't please everyone, which is why we have so many totally different devices now.
She wasn't my "hometown shag" just long distance. It's not like she was my highschool girlfriend (I never called her) and she's now my wife.
:-p
So there.
"that lets you plug in a normal POTS type telephone"
That's the big deal here. I wish I'd had one of these in college when I was making long distance phone calls to my girlfriend. We used IRC and other chat things sometimes, but the good old telephone was much prefered.
We would have saved almost $1k in those days.
This article's not about the DMCA. This is about the Disney's Copying Mickey Act, a bill introduced by Sen. Hollings that prevents anyone from duplicating DVD content without permission. :)
In fact, the last time I moved we had our phone service turned off at the end of the month and the DSL service turned off a week later (when we actually moved.) The DSL still worked without phone service, so it is entirely possible.
Kentucky just passed a similar law. You can even sign-up for the no call list online. It goes into effect in mid-July.
Unfortunately, there are some exceptions to the No-Call list, including:
3. Calls from businesses with whom you have a prior or existing relationship;
Which rules out the annoying Verizon DSL calls I'm getting now because I use them for local phone service. Two or three times each month they call to offer me DSL service that I'm already getting from them.
Well that's assuming that every blank cd bought is being used for music piracy. If you account for software piracy, your $10 per cd retail figure is low and you only need something like 2 million (wildly guessing) copies.
Also, the argument that you wouldn't have bought it if you didn't steal it doesn't really get accounted for. It's like when a store's reporting something stolen: they assume that they would have sold it for full retail price, not that it would sit there until it was marked 75% off.
>>The earth's temp. is rising NOW.
>We don't know that. In fact, we know that in the last 23 years, for which there is a global satellite temperature record,
>there has been no noted warming whatsoever.
Already at this early point in the comment postings, I've seen you quote this at least twice. Please provide a link or reference to this statment. In other words, please prove it.
About a year ago I saw The Wizard of Oz on DirecTv (I think it was AMC) with the Dark Side of the Moon as the alternate audio broadcast. It was a great idea and shows that, if this becomes popular, you might see it on something like HBO in the future.
Anyone else ever hear of a cool alternate audio broadcast?
Charging a recycling fee is only going to make people throw their computers (and worse monitors) into the trash
While that may be true for fees for getting rid of computers, the fee this article is talking about charging is when you buy the computer. If a few dollars more is going to make someone dump their new system into the trash on the way out of the store, I'm not sure it's the politicians that are misguided.
Of course it will be totally wrong after a certain year in which X if we have a major cometary impact that wipes out all life on Earth.
If by year X we're no longer only on or around the planet then it holds. If not, who cares?
Didn't some beer company demo this thing during the Superbowl??
Did I miss something?
Haven't you ever seen a bad movie review for a movie that you enjoyed? One critic's opinion shouldn't stop you from checking something out for yourself.
Yes, but with the new system, you can mark Anonymous comments up or down as you please.
http://slashdot.org/users.pl?op=editcomm
There are lots of other custom goodies there too.
http://slashdot.org/~cmdrtaco/friends
http://slashdot.org/~cmdrtaco/foes
http://slashdot.org/~cmdrtaco/fans
Great, but what if I want to see who's marked someone as a foe? In other words, where's the opposite of fans?
For people who hit the cap, the billing model would simply divide the $20 paid by the customer by the number of pages viewed and pay the sites whatever amount that turned out to be per page.
So, if I know I'm going to hit the cap during a month (say on the 29th), I could just visit my own server the same number of times and get half of the money back?
For example:
Normal Page views by the 29th = 4000
With their formula, each server should get $0.005 per page. If I add 4000 views to my own server, that's 8000 total views.
$20 / 8000 = $0.0025 for each page.
4000 * $0.0025 = $10.
That's $10 for THEM and $10 for ME. The more I view my own server the more of my $20 I get back.
You're in luck, there was Trailer for ET with Monsters Inc. They're rereleasing it in March 2002, redone for the 20th anniversary.
The Bad:
Dialpad was blocked. The story was published. hubcap (the server holding The Tiger's article) slows down even more due to everyone in the world visiting from Slashdot making life hell in Clemson.
The Good:
Our school gets "recognized" and we get to see how many of us are on Slashdot.
Seriously though, if they wanted to improve the network speed and cut down on potential legal problems, they should have been consistent and blocked all of the porn sites from the freshman dorms. After all, they are technically responsible for all the minors that download porn all day. Though I guess that could be classified as educational for some of them.
Once you start blocking some of it, you have to block everything or you're responsible for what you left out
At least one state, Kentucky DOES have references to the actual written laws. The one about baby chicks is disturbing when you think that they actually had to ban painting small animals (I assume for Easter). Like many other people, probably including the creator of this web site, I used to have a book of these kinds of laws.
;)
In my book, an explanation was given for some of the dumb laws. My favorite was the law in some city (in Indiana I think) that made it illegal to exclaim "Oh Boy!" on a city street. It seems that there was this old guy that used to get young lads to do yard work and other odd jobs by saying "Oh boy, can you come help" or "Oh boy, would you like to work for me". Two teenagers heard the guy and harrassed him by shouting "Oh Boy!" whenever they saw the man. The man had some clout with the lawmakers of this small town, and a law was written to make shouting a very common phrase illegal.
Kentucky Specific laws:
I used to live in Lexington and I've heard the ice cream cone in your pocket law since I was a kid, so it's either probably true, or a really popular urban legend. There is a statue of two little kids eating one ice cream downtown. I think of that law everytime I pass the statue. I think I might look up the law that says anyone who has been drinking is "sober" until he or she "cannot hold onto the ground." and file that one as a possible defense later in life.
>suddenly strafe when attacked, bashing into the wall.
Instead of just turning you 90 degrees to avoid the wall when you get there, one solution would be to keep you in the center of the room, even when you are nowhere near the wall. Imagine a big room with say, five feet square of usable space and five feet of "trickery" space. That way you'd always have that extra little room to go before you bash into a wall.
It would be fun to try to beat the system and see if you could touch the wall in one of these things. I think of that episode (aired again recently) of Star Trek Voyager where they go into a wormhole and everyone sees what they want to see (except 7 of 9, of course) but the wormhole is really a "monster" that's trying to eat them. When they finally escape, it turns out that they only thought they'd escaped and were really still inside. Any system that could fool someone that was TRYING to hit a wall that they knew was really there would be impressive.
All this talk of tricking the user reminds me of The Memory of Earth by Orson Scott Card. They solve the man's destructive nature problem by inventing a machine that makes your mind drift and think of something else when you think of a technological advance that would lead to weapons. In the book, our hero realizes that it's a trick and has to use willpower to keep focused on the task at hand. It's an excellent book as are the rest of the books in the Homecoming Saga (5 books).