I'm not surprised that it sped up the rotation by 3 microseconds(not much), but I'm wondering if this really has any secondary effect on the planet. Like "The Day After Tomorrow"-like effects. And I don't mean special effects laced with bad screenwriting.
Like many teenagers, I worked in a movie theatre. Unlike many more, I learned something from my sentence: How profits break down in the ent. industry. I imagine DVD sales only account for 35-40% of profits for a given movie...Look at ticket prices. You got the 8-10 dollar tix at the box office, right?
$6-10 - pay for the film
$3 - helps pay wages
Most theatres jack up concessions, because otherwise, they'd go under. Ticket sales quite literally barely pay for the film from the studio. And that's considering a few thousand patrons a day at the same movie.
A moment of realization is worth a thousand/. comments: the media is like the weather, only it's corporate-made weather. Take the corporate media and the story ends. Take the independent media, stay in Wonderland and see how deep the rabbit hole goes.
I agree that the corporate media is a bunch of corporate bullshit, but I think that much of the "independent media" can go so far left(as a result of being polarized by the right) can become skewed and useless. Then again, I'm a liberal and an independent news publisher/writer/editor.
In 2014, half of us will be dead. I didn't think google is going to top the list of necessities. Half? I don't know about anybody else, but I think I need to do some more contemplative thinking about the average Slashdot user. 15%, maybe, but i don't know about half.
Sorry, I know that's not what you were talking about. I just thought that somebody would probably hhave to say it sometime. (So anyway, would that mean that sanctions would come with a GPL?)
will bandwidth allotments ever change? Nearly half of all mirrors for that site are down for the count. And one is slower than molasses in
January in Moscow.
And for the record, I still read my morning newspaper.
Cable and DSL are a duopoly to some areas and a monopoly in others. I still think they are Way over priced due to this. Their coverage is still lacking in a lot of areas. There are still some fairly affluent areas 25 miles from Atlanta that are not covered.
I totally agree that cable is overpriced(i pay something like $39 a month) but it is indeed a monopoly, and there's little we can do about it, even putting a big ambiguous blimp in the sky...I just don't see this costing less or having more benefits......
Pardon my insolence, stupidity, or lack of logic; but I'm not sure that this is the most fantastic idea for high-speed I've ever heard. First, DSL and Cable work GREAT. And for people in less, erm, metropolitan areas, satellite works great. Except when the weather goes. But how would a floating WAP work better than that?
Far as I'm concerned, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
There's a demand for anything retro, to be honest. Especially when we're dealing with things that you can't obtain anymore at all.
I agree. How about stuff like my favorite, a translated version of Secret of Mana 2 for SNES? Can't get that at the used game shop. I like you idea about the "i-tunes model" of maybe paying a couple bucks for a game that came out decades ago. Unfortunately, I think that the "over-internet-ization" of things like this can be the downfall of local economy. So where's the handshake?
Slashdot Mirror
One more reason not to use Windows Media. How many do you need?
You're correct, but it wasn't a derragatory remark, just a mistake. But it is a dirty joke.
Get it? Penetrate-Penetrode-Initrode? Ah, nevermind.
You mean, "Penetrode"?
Winner: The World.
That's why it's nice to live in the Southwest!
It dosen't matter, you'd need Quad Damage to even think about changing any kind of rotational speed.
I'm not surprised that it sped up the rotation by 3 microseconds(not much), but I'm wondering if this really has any secondary effect on the planet. Like "The Day After Tomorrow"-like effects. And I don't mean special effects laced with bad screenwriting.
Mount three or four lasers with a dialable control to adjust the range at which the beams cross.
Remember what they said in Ghostbusters: Don't cross the streams.
Don't you think they'd figure it out after the laser burned about halfway through?
Like many teenagers, I worked in a movie theatre. Unlike many more, I learned something from my sentence: How profits break down in the ent. industry.
I imagine DVD sales only account for 35-40% of profits for a given movie...Look at ticket prices. You got the 8-10 dollar tix at the box office, right?
$6-10 - pay for the film
$3 - helps pay wages
Most theatres jack up concessions, because otherwise, they'd go under. Ticket sales quite literally barely pay for the film from the studio. And that's considering a few thousand patrons a day at the same movie.
Touché.
OK, he wins, half of us will be dead by then.
That's assuming we leave the house, right?
I guess we would, once we realized that the Slashdot server was down.
they can monitor everything they want, but it will be in vein. There are so many avenues for communcation they can't monitor everything..
Remember, kids:
Vein: Blood vessel that returns blood to the heart.
Vain: without sucess or excessively proud.
A moment of realization is worth a thousand /. comments: the media is like the weather, only it's corporate-made weather. Take the corporate media and the story ends. Take the independent media, stay in Wonderland and see how deep the rabbit hole goes.
I agree that the corporate media is a bunch of corporate bullshit, but I think that much of the "independent media" can go so far left(as a result of being polarized by the right) can become skewed and useless. Then again, I'm a liberal and an independent news publisher/writer/editor.
In 2014, half of us will be dead. I didn't think google is going to top the list of necessities.
Half?
I don't know about anybody else, but I think I need to do some more contemplative thinking about the average Slashdot user. 15%, maybe, but i don't know about half.
Don't you mean "GNUnited Nations"?
Sorry, I know that's not what you were talking about. I just thought that somebody would probably hhave to say it sometime.
(So anyway, would that mean that sanctions would come with a GPL?)
will bandwidth allotments ever change? Nearly half of all mirrors for that site are down for the count. And one is slower than molasses in January in Moscow.
And for the record, I still read my morning newspaper.
Cable and DSL are a duopoly to some areas and a monopoly in others. I still think they are Way over priced due to this. Their coverage is still lacking in a lot of areas. There are still some fairly affluent areas 25 miles from Atlanta that are not covered.
I totally agree that cable is overpriced(i pay something like $39 a month) but it is indeed a monopoly, and there's little we can do about it, even putting a big ambiguous blimp in the sky...I just don't see this costing less or having more benefits......
Pardon my insolence, stupidity, or lack of logic; but I'm not sure that this is the most fantastic idea for high-speed I've ever heard. First, DSL and Cable work GREAT. And for people in less, erm, metropolitan areas, satellite works great. Except when the weather goes. But how would a floating WAP work better than that?
Far as I'm concerned, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
I want similar charts of telemetry of a server as it goes down, like the forensics of a Slashdotting.
Easy peezy. Simply graph f(x)=x^2 and you'll have a graph of hits as a function of time where x=0 is where the link is posted on slashdot.
There's a demand for anything retro, to be honest. Especially when we're dealing with things that you can't obtain anymore at all.
I agree. How about stuff like my favorite, a translated version of Secret of Mana 2 for SNES? Can't get that at the used game shop. I like you idea about the "i-tunes model" of maybe paying a couple bucks for a game that came out decades ago. Unfortunately, I think that the "over-internet-ization" of things like this can be the downfall of local economy. So where's the handshake?
How about Double Dragon?
Sounds too good to be true.
The bill's bans against spyware would begin 12 months after it becomes law and would automatically expire after 2009.
Oh, it is.
Does anybody know if it takes longer for a DVD drive to find the data on a disc? Would this make for a long load time, I wonder?
I really wish that the U.S. would push for this kind of thing, though. Too bad we're too republican.