How much is actually going to the causes?(hell, in PA the cause is "older Pennsylvanians", that outta teach the youth vote:P) I wish I could find the study, but in some cases less than 25% actually gets to where it's going. Most of the rest of the money is for payouts and, at least in PA, for massive amounts of advertising and massive salaries for those involved in organizing the lottery. You are probably better off just donating half the money you would have spent on the lottery to the charity of your choice.
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that the "final" crew of MST3K(onstage anyway) is involved in yet another project(well, projects): The Film Crew and Riff Trax, both lampooning movies. RiffTrax is interesting in that you buy mp3s of the riff online and play them over the dvds of the films. The Film Crews is closer to MST3K in that it comes in 1 package and even has some filler sketches in it....
Is the real money nowadays even in just pawning the computer as quick as you can? I would guess that nowadays, esp. in the corporate world, the data is often worth more than the device itself. I'm surprised more enterprising thieves haven't either held the data ransom or sold it to someone else. But then again, as you point out, thieves aren't necessarily the brightest bulbs in the box....
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he sees what is happening to the RIAA and is scared. Labels are really no longer necessary for a large number of bands to get their music out, with digital distribution, significantly lower production costs etc. And a lot of bands are dropping their labels as fast as they can. The reason the RIAA hates iTunes is that iTunes isn't controlled by them thus has no qualms about selling independent content. They want to launch their own service that only has bands signed by them to try to force bands to stay signed, but its just not going to happen.
NBC is worried about following in their footsteps. While the bar for TV shows is a bit higher, its certainly not out of reach. For instance, how much would it really cost a group of independent people to make the next Seinfeld? Not a lot, esp. now that good video editing tools are pretty cheap(if not free in some cases). Look at how "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" started, the pilot episode cost them less than $100 to make. Imagine if they promoted that on iTunes instead of selling it to a network? They probably could have got enough money to continue to make more episodes and live comfortably. NBC sees its own irrelevance and is doing everything it can to try to stay relevant, but long term its just not going to happen.
Hell, compare it to energy, education, healthcare, food, and in some cases housing and it seems like a downright bargain(or it could be the Fed is incredibly out of touch when it comes up with those low inflation numbers)
TFA states that the guy waited 15 minutes to pick up the merchandise after he already ordered it online using the "pick up in the store" option. Employees(and possibly the manager) would have had ample opportunity to switch out some components and reseal the package. Having worked similar types of jobs, neither the manager nor the employees pulling this would surprise me....
To be fair(coming as a mac fan), the grandparent's comparison was more valid. Since all macs come with a version of OS X installed(and have for years), Leopard is really an "upgrade" and not the full version. Now granted you can go straight from 10.3(maybe even 10.2 if you bought the ultra top of the line 5 years ago and haven't upgraded it for some reason) straight to 10.5, but it is still an upgrade. Meanwhile, in the PC world it isn't rare at all to have a computer that has no OS(mostly ones built from parts)
They actually make you buy the ultimate version to get multiple languages!? Thats INSANE! Especially in this world of increased globalization. I have used 4 different languages on my mac in the past month, and it's so easy and above all free. I haven't really messed around much with multiple languages on Linux, but from what I understand its not all that hard and of course free. Languages aren't the only thing thats free in the rest of the world but not windows. Other examples include ssh clients and compilers to name but a few.
Microsoft must be really living in the past where they could actually get away with this stuff, but their competition has improved IMMENSELY in the past 6 years. It seems like Microsoft just doesn't want to acknowledge that, and is trying to get away with stuff they could(and did!) get away with 10 years ago, such as nickel and diming people on these little things that should be a part of every mainstream PC OS.....
Wow, I didn't realize Windows was THAT backwards(esp. considering how much they claim to be improving security). Name me ONE other modern operating system that doesn't have an ssh client out of the box? Mac has it, Linux has it, as far as I know most(all?) BSDs have it. You are asking people to pay hundreds of dollars for your product, but out of the box it is crippled. Why? It's not like authoring an ssh program is an incredibly difficult engineering project, the technology has been around for over a decade.....If they need to buy a provider, buy one, its not like they cannot afford it.
Yet another reason to avoid Microsoft products like the plague.
Exaggerate uncommon risks -- for example, air travel is safer than cars but because car accidents are common they are seen as less risky
Maybe because everyone involved in an air plane crash usually dies. Automobile deaths are much less. There's this idea of risk = probability * impact. In the case of automobiles, probability is high but the impact is low. It's the other way around in aircraft failures.
Not to mention the whole "I'm such a good driver I can get out of any jam" mentality. Whether true or not, many people think that when they are in a car they are skilled enough to avoid accidents, however in an air plane once that door closes you have about 0 control of your destiny till the plane touches down. That bothers a significant number of people.
Um, since when is "technology" solely defined by consumer gizmos? How many countries outside the US have a working rover on the surface of Mars? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller...?I consider that feat a BIT more impressive than a watch that plays music, but maybe I'm just old fashioned.
Slashdot seems to think consumer technology = technology in general. It's just not true.
In those first couple of videos he looked like a kid whose parents just bought him a suit that is 2 sizes too big and told him he would grow into it....
Net, you can see this as a result, over 50% of the Macs that we sold in our retail stores were to customers who never owned a Mac before so we've been very successful at expanding our customer base.
50% of their RETAIL sales, but it is still an important number because that means that a lot of people are still unsure about the jump, and they go to the retail store to check it out and end up walking out with a mac. The seasoned veterans probably stick to the internet channels(because that is usually where you can get the best deals, esp. if you live in a state that has sales tax)
Windows for good. I had bought a retail copy of XP(not cheap!) and installed it on my laptop. However, a bug with XP caused it to crash before I could activate it(hell, before I even knew I had to) and managed to reset the clock to 1980. Usually this would just be a minor annoyance, but it turns out that if you monkey with the clock before you activate XP(and maybe even after, I don't know), they assume you are trying to pirate it and refuse to let you do anything. So after I plunked down $200 for the thing, I had to go call their number(and this was overseas, so there were some language issues to boot) and take a half hour out of my day to prove to them I didn't steal the thing I just bought. It was at that point I realized there are other OSs out there, and I have been Windows free for 4 years and couldn't be happier.
This problem is hardly unique to Vista, and is just going to drive more and more people away from Microsoft. Microsoft still acts like they are the only game in town. They just refuse to accept that the competition has improved significantly from the time XP was released....
About 70 or so in the past 5 years, and if you go back one more year, 250 more.....
Now I know these aren't directly comparable since there were more miles flown etc, but there are more flying fatalities than trains in the past 5 years, esp. if you go worldwide.
How many articles are we going to have on the same topic? Just a bunch of nonsensical ramblings about "corporations" and "freedom" with about 0 substance. You don't like the direction Linux is taking in terms of "corporate influence", then fork it, end of story.
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How much is actually going to the causes?(hell, in PA the cause is "older Pennsylvanians", that outta teach the youth vote :P) I wish I could find the study, but in some cases less than 25% actually gets to where it's going. Most of the rest of the money is for payouts and, at least in PA, for massive amounts of advertising and massive salaries for those involved in organizing the lottery. You are probably better off just donating half the money you would have spent on the lottery to the charity of your choice.
Remember, Theo de Raadt loves each and every one of you, he includes love in each copy of OpenBSD! Well, love or an incredible hatred of the x86 platform and everything not OpenBSD.
So they make the virus dance to death? Couldn't they just give it some ectasy and techno instead? Same effect in the end.
that the "final" crew of MST3K(onstage anyway) is involved in yet another project(well, projects): The Film Crew and Riff Trax, both lampooning movies. RiffTrax is interesting in that you buy mp3s of the riff online and play them over the dvds of the films. The Film Crews is closer to MST3K in that it comes in 1 package and even has some filler sketches in it....
set up us the Tsara Bomba!
Or you could set your wallpaper to the goatse man, get a custom goatse case mod, goatse keyboard...Nobody will want to touch that laptop!
Is the real money nowadays even in just pawning the computer as quick as you can? I would guess that nowadays, esp. in the corporate world, the data is often worth more than the device itself. I'm surprised more enterprising thieves haven't either held the data ransom or sold it to someone else. But then again, as you point out, thieves aren't necessarily the brightest bulbs in the box....
he sees what is happening to the RIAA and is scared. Labels are really no longer necessary for a large number of bands to get their music out, with digital distribution, significantly lower production costs etc. And a lot of bands are dropping their labels as fast as they can. The reason the RIAA hates iTunes is that iTunes isn't controlled by them thus has no qualms about selling independent content. They want to launch their own service that only has bands signed by them to try to force bands to stay signed, but its just not going to happen.
NBC is worried about following in their footsteps. While the bar for TV shows is a bit higher, its certainly not out of reach. For instance, how much would it really cost a group of independent people to make the next Seinfeld? Not a lot, esp. now that good video editing tools are pretty cheap(if not free in some cases). Look at how "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" started, the pilot episode cost them less than $100 to make. Imagine if they promoted that on iTunes instead of selling it to a network? They probably could have got enough money to continue to make more episodes and live comfortably. NBC sees its own irrelevance and is doing everything it can to try to stay relevant, but long term its just not going to happen.
Hell, compare it to energy, education, healthcare, food, and in some cases housing and it seems like a downright bargain(or it could be the Fed is incredibly out of touch when it comes up with those low inflation numbers)
TFA states that the guy waited 15 minutes to pick up the merchandise after he already ordered it online using the "pick up in the store" option. Employees(and possibly the manager) would have had ample opportunity to switch out some components and reseal the package. Having worked similar types of jobs, neither the manager nor the employees pulling this would surprise me....
Couldn't you use the same sign at a porn shoot?
Depends on how many former East German women have been in it.
they are created when God puts foil in his microwave :P
To be fair(coming as a mac fan), the grandparent's comparison was more valid. Since all macs come with a version of OS X installed(and have for years), Leopard is really an "upgrade" and not the full version. Now granted you can go straight from 10.3(maybe even 10.2 if you bought the ultra top of the line 5 years ago and haven't upgraded it for some reason) straight to 10.5, but it is still an upgrade. Meanwhile, in the PC world it isn't rare at all to have a computer that has no OS(mostly ones built from parts)
They actually make you buy the ultimate version to get multiple languages!? Thats INSANE! Especially in this world of increased globalization. I have used 4 different languages on my mac in the past month, and it's so easy and above all free. I haven't really messed around much with multiple languages on Linux, but from what I understand its not all that hard and of course free. Languages aren't the only thing thats free in the rest of the world but not windows. Other examples include ssh clients and compilers to name but a few.
Microsoft must be really living in the past where they could actually get away with this stuff, but their competition has improved IMMENSELY in the past 6 years. It seems like Microsoft just doesn't want to acknowledge that, and is trying to get away with stuff they could(and did!) get away with 10 years ago, such as nickel and diming people on these little things that should be a part of every mainstream PC OS.....
Question(since this is user generated video content we are talking about), did you do better than the cats playing the piano?
Wow, I didn't realize Windows was THAT backwards(esp. considering how much they claim to be improving security). Name me ONE other modern operating system that doesn't have an ssh client out of the box? Mac has it, Linux has it, as far as I know most(all?) BSDs have it. You are asking people to pay hundreds of dollars for your product, but out of the box it is crippled. Why? It's not like authoring an ssh program is an incredibly difficult engineering project, the technology has been around for over a decade.....If they need to buy a provider, buy one, its not like they cannot afford it.
Yet another reason to avoid Microsoft products like the plague.
Exaggerate uncommon risks -- for example, air travel is safer than cars but because car accidents are common they are seen as less risky
Maybe because everyone involved in an air plane crash usually dies. Automobile deaths are much less. There's this idea of risk = probability * impact. In the case of automobiles, probability is high but the impact is low. It's the other way around in aircraft failures.
Not to mention the whole "I'm such a good driver I can get out of any jam" mentality. Whether true or not, many people think that when they are in a car they are skilled enough to avoid accidents, however in an air plane once that door closes you have about 0 control of your destiny till the plane touches down. That bothers a significant number of people.
Um, since when is "technology" solely defined by consumer gizmos? How many countries outside the US have a working rover on the surface of Mars? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller...?I consider that feat a BIT more impressive than a watch that plays music, but maybe I'm just old fashioned.
Slashdot seems to think consumer technology = technology in general. It's just not true.
In those first couple of videos he looked like a kid whose parents just bought him a suit that is 2 sizes too big and told him he would grow into it....
Not quite correct:
Net, you can see this as a result, over 50% of the Macs that we sold in our retail stores were to customers who never owned a Mac before so we've been very successful at expanding our customer base.
50% of their RETAIL sales, but it is still an important number because that means that a lot of people are still unsure about the jump, and they go to the retail store to check it out and end up walking out with a mac. The seasoned veterans probably stick to the internet channels(because that is usually where you can get the best deals, esp. if you live in a state that has sales tax)
Windows for good. I had bought a retail copy of XP(not cheap!) and installed it on my laptop. However, a bug with XP caused it to crash before I could activate it(hell, before I even knew I had to) and managed to reset the clock to 1980. Usually this would just be a minor annoyance, but it turns out that if you monkey with the clock before you activate XP(and maybe even after, I don't know), they assume you are trying to pirate it and refuse to let you do anything. So after I plunked down $200 for the thing, I had to go call their number(and this was overseas, so there were some language issues to boot) and take a half hour out of my day to prove to them I didn't steal the thing I just bought. It was at that point I realized there are other OSs out there, and I have been Windows free for 4 years and couldn't be happier.
This problem is hardly unique to Vista, and is just going to drive more and more people away from Microsoft. Microsoft still acts like they are the only game in town. They just refuse to accept that the competition has improved significantly from the time XP was released....
Macs haven't had a lot of those things for years....
Train accidents with less than 20 fatalities
About 70 or so in the past 5 years, and if you go back one more year, 250 more.....
Now I know these aren't directly comparable since there were more miles flown etc, but there are more flying fatalities than trains in the past 5 years, esp. if you go worldwide.
How many articles are we going to have on the same topic? Just a bunch of nonsensical ramblings about "corporations" and "freedom" with about 0 substance. You don't like the direction Linux is taking in terms of "corporate influence", then fork it, end of story.