Different business models entirely--Apple learned their lesson in the late nineties by finally stopping its efforts to be like the big boys. By focusing on a niche market and slowly expanding it is perhaps akin to Southwestern Airlines vs. American
It would seem to me that all government spending must enrich somebody and thus in their opponents' eyes is going to be "pork"
Maybe it would be best to note that not all pork is bad--bacon is delicious and so is all the subsidized farm produce in my state.
In all of this, I really expected to see someone comment about bad tech support experiences as a counter to these--more than half of the people I've talked to in various tech support departments are sitting in front of a screen clicking a mouse to advance to the next problem-solving step because they themselves have no clue what they are doing.
And then customer billing support is even worse!
I found the whole series a bit strained and quit watching after two episodes--it made me go back and re-watch a couple of the old ones and I've discovered that just like star trek, old sci fi in general is good for a few laughs.
You can now revoke my geek card for having a low opinion of Galactica.
Coca-Cola had an interesting response to this meme on their website at one point under "Coke myths" - while Pepsi certainly isn't Coke, at least outside the southern US, it would appear to be victim to the same meme.
yes, it is slashdot, and usually the various and sundry people that swear on it do so rather publicly and not just to cowboyneal.
I expect some actually do swear by cowboyneal
As I recall, it did work with the dinosaurs, and then they left in giant starships and created a religion that made heresy of the "great migration" theory that all their archaeology proposed.
It was only after being confronted with the truth that they tried to eat it... err, something along those lines anyway. Star Trek is great fun sometimes.
Not only does star trek affect production of technology but also now sim city with its "waste-to-energy" devices.
Someone will probably state that sim city just had an exclusive preview of the blue prints, but the timing is also interesting to me since it is fairly close to the availability of the device in the timeline of the game.
As many have noted already, Lego bricks are more expensive and have a tendency to be higher quality.
As an adult collector, I could care less about Megablocks as cheap imitations of a good product that easily break.
Lego sets, on the other hand, have a huge resale value, often garnering the collector more than the original Lego price (especially for sets in the Space / Castle genres).
Parents who buy megablocks for their kids today because they are "cheaper" will never gain back any of their lost money, but the parent who ensures that only a few pieces in a lego set are lost is likely to regain most if not all of their investment--if they watch their kids carefully and keep the box hidden away somewhere for ten or possibly even five years, they'll recoup their investment on most models completely.
Version tracking is great, but how can it stand up to a program that can keep track of versions while also giving users the ability to merge multiple versions together without having to copy/paste?
But giving a monkey a paint brush would, in all likelihood prove the existence of a paint brush factory. And you noted "abilities" as well--how did that monkey learn how to paint like da Vinci?
Hurrah for British spelling--but in other news, ancient Hebrew obviously differs from ALL English translations in that it was written in... Hebrew.
You are probably noting a failure of transmission though and when doing so, it is usually helpful to cite specific examples. Modern textual criticism both within "biblical studies" and in other ancient literature has progressed significantly and a comment that there is (I assume this is your comment) significant transmission error in the text requires specific support.
But hey, this is slashdot and we don't even read the article here;)
Yet another insightful comment hit by the slashdot bias, though admittedly, if the last sentence had been left off, it wouldn't have been labeled "troll"
Since he seems to have progressed just fine over the last twenty years or so, I'd say having all that energy constantly around him hasn't affected him at all. Let the pink bunny do all the extraterrestrial work--radiation hasn't really created a problem.
(The real life batteries though never seem to do well in my chargers)
This has made watching old Star Trek's more like watching a comedy for me than anything else. Seeing them as a kid and seeing them again as an adult, the deus ex machina of the show is incredible... and most of it centers around the deflector.
It seems to me it will start out at a high price for limited exposure advertising whatnot--maybe not as billboards, but certainly we'll be seeing a lot fewer sandwich board guys and more stationary stationery yelling at us to buy company x's product
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Different business models entirely--Apple learned their lesson in the late nineties by finally stopping its efforts to be like the big boys. By focusing on a niche market and slowly expanding it is perhaps akin to Southwestern Airlines vs. American
It would seem to me that all government spending must enrich somebody and thus in their opponents' eyes is going to be "pork" Maybe it would be best to note that not all pork is bad--bacon is delicious and so is all the subsidized farm produce in my state.
In all of this, I really expected to see someone comment about bad tech support experiences as a counter to these--more than half of the people I've talked to in various tech support departments are sitting in front of a screen clicking a mouse to advance to the next problem-solving step because they themselves have no clue what they are doing. And then customer billing support is even worse!
like an idiot, I actually watched a screening of "The Source" six months prior to release. It was worse than all the rest
Well, at least there haven't been any people lying about any mythical sequels to the Matrix.
I found the whole series a bit strained and quit watching after two episodes--it made me go back and re-watch a couple of the old ones and I've discovered that just like star trek, old sci fi in general is good for a few laughs. You can now revoke my geek card for having a low opinion of Galactica.
Coca-Cola had an interesting response to this meme on their website at one point under "Coke myths" - while Pepsi certainly isn't Coke, at least outside the southern US, it would appear to be victim to the same meme.
Is there a copy of this article on a site that doesn't immediately flag problems at work--something tech oriented perhaps?
yes, it is slashdot, and usually the various and sundry people that swear on it do so rather publicly and not just to cowboyneal. I expect some actually do swear by cowboyneal
As I recall, it did work with the dinosaurs, and then they left in giant starships and created a religion that made heresy of the "great migration" theory that all their archaeology proposed. It was only after being confronted with the truth that they tried to eat it... err, something along those lines anyway. Star Trek is great fun sometimes.
Either that, or a microwave emitter. If you don't get out of my way, I'll cook you... that would be awesome.
it would also ensure ongoing business for you provided you turned it off in time.
Not only does star trek affect production of technology but also now sim city with its "waste-to-energy" devices. Someone will probably state that sim city just had an exclusive preview of the blue prints, but the timing is also interesting to me since it is fairly close to the availability of the device in the timeline of the game.
As many have noted already, Lego bricks are more expensive and have a tendency to be higher quality. As an adult collector, I could care less about Megablocks as cheap imitations of a good product that easily break. Lego sets, on the other hand, have a huge resale value, often garnering the collector more than the original Lego price (especially for sets in the Space / Castle genres). Parents who buy megablocks for their kids today because they are "cheaper" will never gain back any of their lost money, but the parent who ensures that only a few pieces in a lego set are lost is likely to regain most if not all of their investment--if they watch their kids carefully and keep the box hidden away somewhere for ten or possibly even five years, they'll recoup their investment on most models completely.
Version tracking is great, but how can it stand up to a program that can keep track of versions while also giving users the ability to merge multiple versions together without having to copy/paste?
But giving a monkey a paint brush would, in all likelihood prove the existence of a paint brush factory. And you noted "abilities" as well--how did that monkey learn how to paint like da Vinci?
Are we scientists or technician? isn't there a difference?
Have you considered the possibility that the prophecies not fulfilled are not yet fulfilled?
Favorite artificial language: - Klingon - Qindarin - Java - Jabba the Hutt's gibberish - CowboyNealish - music
Hurrah for British spelling--but in other news, ancient Hebrew obviously differs from ALL English translations in that it was written in... Hebrew.
;)
You are probably noting a failure of transmission though and when doing so, it is usually helpful to cite specific examples. Modern textual criticism both within "biblical studies" and in other ancient literature has progressed significantly and a comment that there is (I assume this is your comment) significant transmission error in the text requires specific support.
But hey, this is slashdot and we don't even read the article here
Orbital?
This was supposed to be funny... Notice his spelling of "fowl"
Yet another insightful comment hit by the slashdot bias, though admittedly, if the last sentence had been left off, it wouldn't have been labeled "troll"
Since he seems to have progressed just fine over the last twenty years or so, I'd say having all that energy constantly around him hasn't affected him at all. Let the pink bunny do all the extraterrestrial work--radiation hasn't really created a problem. (The real life batteries though never seem to do well in my chargers)
This has made watching old Star Trek's more like watching a comedy for me than anything else. Seeing them as a kid and seeing them again as an adult, the deus ex machina of the show is incredible... and most of it centers around the deflector.
It seems to me it will start out at a high price for limited exposure advertising whatnot--maybe not as billboards, but certainly we'll be seeing a lot fewer sandwich board guys and more stationary stationery yelling at us to buy company x's product