These shipping companies are definitely taxed -- the gas they use in their trucks, the employees, their infrastructure, everything
Time to bring UPS, FedEX, and heck even the USPS (they are an indie company now right?) into the fray, just imagine how much business they will lose if internet sales tank.
Wow, and what suprised me most was the fact that Novell still exists and is shipping software. Perhaps this article of doom fits into the same category as the "BSD is dead" articles?
The surprise success story is free books." Of course, this defines "success" as number of readers, not in terms of monetary profits. I wish amazon defined success this way, then I would only have to pay shipping to support my crack-like book collecting habit (at least until amazon went out of business).
Actually, they are planning on using FedEx to send everyone a cadaver (one of the requirements to take these classes is that you have a large freezer).
While it still annoys me to check and see calls from "Unavailable", you can't beat caller ID, since none of the telescammers ever call with their real ID/phone number. Without caller ID I would have to go back to my old technique of using the air horn on em when they called (which tended to annoy my neighbors at 9pm). And still to this day I have yet to get one of them to give me their supervisors home number, so I could bug him/her while they are eating dinner to discuss my athletes foot problem.
Sadly, the site has been slashdotted into oblivion, so I need the help of those who have seen the site. I miss the cicada like whining of the drive from my old vaxstation, which drive would help bring back that sense of nostalgia? Also, extra heat output would be great since it is almost winter again here in the states.
All I can say is Make 'em pay, it's the only way to hurt 'em where it counts.
And for his next trick, the California Attorney General will squeeze blood from a turnip, unless those "make money fast" spam emails really were true, hmmmm... Don't get me wrong, sue away. Personally I wish they would make the spammers donate organs until they can pay up if/when they lose.
The best part is, we won't see a patch until the EULA that comes with it is written to say "we own your PC" in legal talk, pretty much guaranteeing that the only ones working overtime on this will be Microsoft's lawyers.
why AOL didn't do this much sooner. I figured once they bought Netscape, the first thing they would do is start offering their "AOL" PCs. Imagine a PC where if the user has problems, you can debug their machine remotely, via a recovery CD that lets the machine dial in to AOL and a tech logs in and checks out the problem. If only I could find my post from ages ago about this...:-)
of a dream I always had: to install Win 3.1.1 on my 1ghz pc, just to see how fast it would boot. Soundcard and just about everything else probably wouldn't work, but dang it would be nice to see windows start up quickly.
Experts on childhood and adolescence have long recognised the importance of violent fantasy play in overcoming anxieties, processing anger, and providing outlets for aggression.
Not even in my wildest imaginings did I ever think up running around chainsawing people; good thing we have computers around to help augment our violent fantasy capabilities. Not to mention a verion of DOOM where you hire lawyers to sue the baddys into prison instead of blasting them with a shotgun probably wouldn't sell as well.
The big potential losers if Apple should switch chips would be software developers. They would be forced -- perhaps for the second time in two years -- to rewrite their programs, this time to make them work with a Pentium-based Mac. That's no small task -- and could be a disaster for the Mac community, since many of its developers are small shops. And without software support, the Mac would truly be dead.
Why is this so? Having never done dev work on an Apple I am pretty ignorant, but doesn't Apple release a basic API that doesn't change even when the underlying hardware changes (apparently not)? And why not release free tools into open source, so piles of developers are writing software for Apple for free?
I propose that whoever invents the first working holodeck be made a superhero in advance (What, that isn't what the article was about? How would I know since it has been/.'ed into oblivion???)
What concerns me is that we all live on the same planet, and no matter where you go, presumably the US will, either directly or indirectly, effect your life. Short of immigrating to Mars (not an option yet) sooner or later many things the US does could still make your life miserable (think pollution/economic choices/military intervention/whatever). For example, once Afghanistan/Iraq/ has been emptied of all terrorist threats to the US, what then? I can think of lots of ways the US can adversely effect the world, it seems to me my chances of improving things are higher if I remain a voting US citizen.
Actually, I would rather imagine a cluster of people with baseball bats chasing down people who post "Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these" to slashdot and beating some sense into them.;-)
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Time to bring UPS, FedEX, and heck even the USPS (they are an indie company now right?) into the fray, just imagine how much business they will lose if internet sales tank.
Ignore more .sig, I say break them up before they have a serious monopoly here.
So slashdot really *has* been taken over by trolls? (God I love this moderation system).
Wow, and what suprised me most was the fact that Novell still exists and is shipping software. Perhaps this article of doom fits into the same category as the "BSD is dead" articles?
The surprise success story is free books." Of course, this defines "success" as number of readers, not in terms of monetary profits.
I wish amazon defined success this way, then I would only have to pay shipping to support my crack-like book collecting habit (at least until amazon went out of business).
Actually, they are planning on using FedEx to send everyone a cadaver (one of the requirements to take these classes is that you have a large freezer).
Wow, I just figured ebay had started selling sodium with express shipping (see previous slashdot story here).
While it still annoys me to check and see calls from "Unavailable", you can't beat caller ID, since none of the telescammers ever call with their real ID/phone number. Without caller ID I would have to go back to my old technique of using the air horn on em when they called (which tended to annoy my neighbors at 9pm). And still to this day I have yet to get one of them to give me their supervisors home number, so I could bug him/her while they are eating dinner to discuss my athletes foot problem.
duct taping this sodium to people who post "imagine a beowulf cluster of these" posts, and throwing them in a lake.
Finally, my favorite one-fingered gesture can be used to choose windows from my GRUB menu.
Proof that in cyberspace, you can't hear your webmaster scream....
Sadly, the site has been slashdotted into oblivion, so I need the help of those who have seen the site. I miss the cicada like whining of the drive from my old vaxstation, which drive would help bring back that sense of nostalgia? Also, extra heat output would be great since it is almost winter again here in the states.
And for his next trick, the California Attorney General will squeeze blood from a turnip, unless those "make money fast" spam emails really were true, hmmmm... Don't get me wrong, sue away. Personally I wish they would make the spammers donate organs until they can pay up if/when they lose.
if they are gonna put a huge warning sticker on the front of the figher: "Do not stare directly into laser"?
The best part is, we won't see a patch until the EULA that comes with it is written to say "we own your PC" in legal talk, pretty much guaranteeing that the only ones working overtime on this will be Microsoft's lawyers.
why AOL didn't do this much sooner. I figured once they bought Netscape, the first thing they would do is start offering their "AOL" PCs. Imagine a PC where if the user has problems, you can debug their machine remotely, via a recovery CD that lets the machine dial in to AOL and a tech logs in and checks out the problem. If only I could find my post from ages ago about this... :-)
of a dream I always had: to install Win 3.1.1 on my 1ghz pc, just to see how fast it would boot. Soundcard and just about everything else probably wouldn't work, but dang it would be nice to see windows start up quickly.
Not even in my wildest imaginings did I ever think up running around chainsawing people; good thing we have computers around to help augment our violent fantasy capabilities. Not to mention a verion of DOOM where you hire lawyers to sue the baddys into prison instead of blasting them with a shotgun probably wouldn't sell as well.
Don't crack dealers use similiar tactics?
Why is this so? Having never done dev work on an Apple I am pretty ignorant, but doesn't Apple release a basic API that doesn't change even when the underlying hardware changes (apparently not)? And why not release free tools into open source, so piles of developers are writing software for Apple for free?
I propose that whoever invents the first working holodeck be made a superhero in advance (What, that isn't what the article was about? How would I know since it has been /.'ed into oblivion???)
I couldn't tell from the article, do I have to bring the whole body in to collect, or is the head sufficient?
What concerns me is that we all live on the same planet, and no matter where you go, presumably the US will, either directly or indirectly, effect your life. Short of immigrating to Mars (not an option yet) sooner or later many things the US does could still make your life miserable (think pollution/economic choices/military intervention/whatever). For example, once Afghanistan/Iraq/ has been emptied of all terrorist threats to the US, what then? I can think of lots of ways the US can adversely effect the world, it seems to me my chances of improving things are higher if I remain a voting US citizen.
Actually, I would rather imagine a cluster of people with baseball bats chasing down people who post "Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these" to slashdot and beating some sense into them. ;-)
Your best bet is to simply turn up the volume of your mp3 player, eventually your gradual hearing loss will mask this unpleasant artifact noise.