I had a 20-something in my town use a calculator at a checkout line 2 weeks ago when I gave her $21.01 for a $6.06 charge. Unbelievable. You probably confused her since she just gave you your dollar back (I am assuming you don't have a $21 bill).
If you had given her $20.01 she would have given you $13.95 back, but with $21.01 she gave you $14.95 back. So it was the same dollar.
She probably thought you were a grifter. Did you call her sweetheart? That is the kind of thing grifters do in the movies.
It's Valdosta State. They are already on the bottom peg.
If anyone is interested in avoiding schools that trample on student's rights to free speech, there is a watchdog group that maintains a list of such institutions. http://www.thefire.org/
This is weird, a guy with a horse and buggy wrote this on slashdot in the 1930s:
the growth of car ownership in the UK is going to be one of the worst disasters to hit that country. Just like in America, where car ownership for a hundred million people is destroying millions of acres of land (roads) and eating up untolds amount of whale oil. Driver's ed is non-existent, the roads are awful, there are no rules on the road. If you've ever been to the UK and driven on the roads (and I'm not talking about the insane cities streets) you'll find out very quickly how terrifying that drive can be. Putting forty million more people in cars is not the way to a good future - not for the UK and not for the rest of the planet. Building a cheap ass car like this will only doom us faster...
It could be my aversion to touching screens or it could be the way the unit is balanced encouraging me to hold it by its edges, but I get about 3 or 4 fingerprints a year on the screen and I use my t-shirt to wipe them off.
The Sony Reader comes with a cover to prevent fingerprints while rooting through the bag.
First of all, it is a bit disingenuous to say that because some people have expressed a desire to utilize this service to create MP3s on their hard drive that everyone will do it and then become outraged because everyone wants to utilize this service to create MP3s on their hard drive.
Secondly, what exactly is fair use to you? If someone tapes a radio station broadcast and listens to it in other places where there is no radio, is that fair use or not? How is that any different from going to a website that broadcasts MP3s and storing the MP3s to listen to when not at that website?
Your comment makes me think that you have never seen one of these eInk devices (sorry if I'm wrong about that).
It is not a computer screen in the way that your monitor or TV or PDA is a computer screen. I have the Sony eReader and as far as the display quality goes, it is exactly like reading a paper book.
I noticed that the local Barnes & Noble or Borders (I can't tell them apart) now has Sony eReaders on display in the store. If there is one in your neighborhood you might want to check it out.
He is fighting for something he believes in.... Why go after him
You are entitled to believe what you want to believe of course, but I think that most of the rest of us here do not believe that he is fighting for something he believes in.
We think he is an arrogant self aggrandizing douche who will remorselessly take advantage of tragedy and the sorrow of others in order to make himself more famous.
Doesn't the question come down entirely, then, on whether or not Activision has clearly stated that the song is a soundalike? I don't own that particularly copy of Guitar Hero, but I do recall reading either on a label or perhaps in game that some of the songs were not original recordings (in more specific detail per song.)
What Activision does is display "by Aerosmith" or "as made famous by The Romantics" on the splash screen for the song when it starts.
I currently have a Netflix subscription, and I used to subscribe to both Yahoo Music (for about 9 months) and Napster (for about 3 months).
The reason that I keep one and dumped the other two is the interface.
I'm not sure what is different about cataloging movies and music (maybe it is because movies have the Kevin Bacon game), but if I go to the Netflix website for 30 minutes and click around I'll find 10 movies to add to my list.
I spent dozens of hours on Yahoo/Napster but they couldn't take my input and drive me to new bands that I wanted to listen to. I found myself just listening to music I already own. There must be new music out there from bands that I would like, but I can't find it.
I really want rental music to work out because I prefer to rent entertainment. I get Play Station games from Game Fly and I get books from the library. Hopefully somebody will figure out how to do it right.
Unless he had a tote board which was counting his playing time there probably wasn't anyone who knew how long he had been playing.
Customers have no way of knowing how long somebody has been there before they arrive. So unless somebody had been playing for 101 hours, none of the other customers would have known he was in any danger.
If the staff rotates off every 8 or so hours, they wouldn't know how long the person had been there either. Any employee who did notice the guy might have assumed that he gets there before the employee's shift and leaves after the shift is over.
The only entity which might have known that the player had not left in 100 hours was the billing software. But TFA says that this occurred in China, so it really isn't surprising that alerting staff to a user who exceeds normal playing time isn't a feature of the software.
Having a solid sense of what is going on in the world can only be a benefit.
May I extrapolate from your statement that you not only rely on Slashdot for a sense of what is going on in the world, but that you think every one else does also?
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You lost a million in your calculations.
MS is spending 87 cents / zombie.
If you had given her $20.01 she would have given you $13.95 back, but with $21.01 she gave you $14.95 back. So it was the same dollar.
She probably thought you were a grifter. Did you call her sweetheart? That is the kind of thing grifters do in the movies.
Texans always have a shotgun handy. That is what makes us Texans.
This post fails the Turing Test. Swift2001 is a machine (as if the name was obvious enough).
/. are really bots that use some kind of keyword matching.
No human could take a post about a Trojan on an iPhone and turn it into a screed against Microsoft.
I've often wondered how many of the posters on
It's Valdosta State. They are already on the bottom peg.
If anyone is interested in avoiding schools that trample on student's rights to free speech, there is a watchdog group that maintains a list of such institutions. http://www.thefire.org/
This is weird, a guy with a horse and buggy wrote this on slashdot in the 1930s:
the growth of car ownership in the UK is going to be one of the worst disasters to hit that country. Just like in America, where car ownership for a hundred million people is destroying millions of acres of land (roads) and eating up untolds amount of whale oil. Driver's ed is non-existent, the roads are awful, there are no rules on the road. If you've ever been to the UK and driven on the roads (and I'm not talking about the insane cities streets) you'll find out very quickly how terrifying that drive can be. Putting forty million more people in cars is not the way to a good future - not for the UK and not for the rest of the planet. Building a cheap ass car like this will only doom us faster...
Why does God need techs?
To be completely unbiased you need two biased people? Is that from "1984"?
I have the Sony Reader and this is a non issue.
It could be my aversion to touching screens or it could be the way the unit is balanced encouraging me to hold it by its edges, but I get about 3 or 4 fingerprints a year on the screen and I use my t-shirt to wipe them off.
The Sony Reader comes with a cover to prevent fingerprints while rooting through the bag.
First of all, it is a bit disingenuous to say that because some people have expressed a desire to utilize this service to create MP3s on their hard drive that everyone will do it and then become outraged because everyone wants to utilize this service to create MP3s on their hard drive.
Secondly, what exactly is fair use to you? If someone tapes a radio station broadcast and listens to it in other places where there is no radio, is that fair use or not? How is that any different from going to a website that broadcasts MP3s and storing the MP3s to listen to when not at that website?
Plus their flapping heads so full of lies.
Your comment makes me think that you have never seen one of these eInk devices (sorry if I'm wrong about that).
It is not a computer screen in the way that your monitor or TV or PDA is a computer screen. I have the Sony eReader and as far as the display quality goes, it is exactly like reading a paper book.
I noticed that the local Barnes & Noble or Borders (I can't tell them apart) now has Sony eReaders on display in the store. If there is one in your neighborhood you might want to check it out.
In a fight between Batman and Darth Vader, the winner would be Chuck Norris.
http://www.chucknorrisfacts.com/
Wwwwwwhhhhhhhoooooooossssshhhhhhh
He is fighting for something he believes in.... Why go after him
You are entitled to believe what you want to believe of course, but I think that most of the rest of us here do not believe that he is fighting for something he believes in.
We think he is an arrogant self aggrandizing douche who will remorselessly take advantage of tragedy and the sorrow of others in order to make himself more famous.
When it docks in the U.S., it's 100 yards long by 160 feet wide
In the US a football field is 120 yards long (100 yards between goal lines + 2 x 10 yard end zones).
when the ship docks in a Canadian port the sail will expand to 100 meters long and 59.4 meters wide
A Canadian football field is 150 yards long (110 yards between goal lines + 2 x 20 yard end zones)
Doesn't the question come down entirely, then, on whether or not Activision has clearly stated that the song is a soundalike? I don't own that particularly copy of Guitar Hero, but I do recall reading either on a label or perhaps in game that some of the songs were not original recordings (in more specific detail per song.)
What Activision does is display "by Aerosmith" or "as made famous by The Romantics" on the splash screen for the song when it starts.
We call this application of logic to evidence "science". It seems to work pretty well.
Only because you measure the success of your "science" in the same speculative way.
The Enterprise doesn't haul garbage, it should be hauled away as garbage.
I currently have a Netflix subscription, and I used to subscribe to both Yahoo Music (for about 9 months) and Napster (for about 3 months).
The reason that I keep one and dumped the other two is the interface.
I'm not sure what is different about cataloging movies and music (maybe it is because movies have the Kevin Bacon game), but if I go to the Netflix website for 30 minutes and click around I'll find 10 movies to add to my list.
I spent dozens of hours on Yahoo/Napster but they couldn't take my input and drive me to new bands that I wanted to listen to. I found myself just listening to music I already own. There must be new music out there from bands that I would like, but I can't find it.
I really want rental music to work out because I prefer to rent entertainment. I get Play Station games from Game Fly and I get books from the library. Hopefully somebody will figure out how to do it right.
So you're saying that if I buy just 80 tickets a day, I'll have above even chances of winning over 40 years!
You're short by a factor of about 104. You'd have to buy 8,342 tickets per day for 40 years.
They faked building one of them, does that count?
Unless he had a tote board which was counting his playing time there probably wasn't anyone who knew how long he had been playing.
Customers have no way of knowing how long somebody has been there before they arrive. So unless somebody had been playing for 101 hours, none of the other customers would have known he was in any danger.
If the staff rotates off every 8 or so hours, they wouldn't know how long the person had been there either. Any employee who did notice the guy might have assumed that he gets there before the employee's shift and leaves after the shift is over.
The only entity which might have known that the player had not left in 100 hours was the billing software. But TFA says that this occurred in China, so it really isn't surprising that alerting staff to a user who exceeds normal playing time isn't a feature of the software.
Having a solid sense of what is going on in the world can only be a benefit.
May I extrapolate from your statement that you not only rely on Slashdot for a sense of what is going on in the world, but that you think every one else does also?
Not it is not. It is $10,000,000. But you are correct about that begin a sizable chunk of change.
An easy way to do the problem is without percentages:
$100,000,000,000 - $99,990,000,000