The Flowbee(tm) was a very real, very shitty product. Not so much shitty in construct, but in execution. You hooked up a powered attachment to a shop vac and applied it to the unlucky hair in question. There were length attachments like a normal pair of "buzzers," but the designers actually expected people to use it to trim long hair to a similarly long, yet slightly shorter, length.
You don't remember those infomercials? I think they sold them well into the mid-90's.
That's the problem with this article. The Xbox bundles they are refering to are not the core and "premium" core bundles being offered by Microsoft, but the rediculous bundles being offered by EB and GameStop with several additional games, controllers, and other miscellaneous accessories for hundreds of dollars more. I don't think the pricing of any of the "systems" on the list in the article are for bundles like that.
The big epiphany here though is that most of the systems on their list, save for the Neo-Geo, came out in the US first (or are not gaming consoles -- PDP-1, WTF?), so the benefit of scale-of-economy are lost because the hardware hasn't been in another territory for several months or years.
I'm too lazy to do the research, but the Genesis, SNES, Saturn, N64, PlayStation, Dreamcast, and PlayStation 2 were far more expensive (most $300+, some $400) when they came out in Japan, but were reduced in price partly due to lowered production costs once they reached U.S. shores. Difference in the economy of both countries in general played a small part in price difference, but such variances are usually only to the tune of $15-40 on a $300-400 product.
I think the old proverb, "he who laughs last, laughs best" fits this situation most appropriately. We should all hope that that type of post is indeed intended as a sarcastic joke (one that aside from a small group of people, is only funny to the person who submitted it -- though I can imagine the minute of enjoyment that doing such a thing would bring).
Yeah, looks like they are now. They weren't when the story first broke. Maybe they saw everyone coming from Slashdot and read the post of the fellow above me or my own. I mean that half-jokingly, but either way it seems the influx of traffic flipped a switch in someone's head that those should probably be removed.
Either these guys are in cahoots with Microsoft, or they are a bunch of idiots. The serial numbers are even left unobscured in the pictures. Perhaps both their budget for legal matters and stock of high-profile lawyers trump that of Microsoft's. Surely.
I want to mod my Xbox 360, but I can imagine this will be one chip we won't be seeing anytime soon now.
How loud do you think the implosion will be when Google finally triumphs over evil and brings down, er, Google? And Canada is a bitch, just like New Year's and Valentines day.
Wait a second now . . . this isn't a real survey, is it?
"Its" is proper for "it is", and the possesive of "it".
The poles flipping probably won't make humans feel different or anything, and barring any crazy concentration or increase in the the magnetic field during such a process, shouldn't affect electronics unless they are directly related to measuring the magnetic characteristics of Earth.
Many other animals, most notably birds migration habits, will be drastically altered when looking at the pole-flip phenomenon from a beginning-to-end perspective, but any changes to any living thing's behavior will be as subtle as any other process would be if spread out over several hundred years.
So yes, people are "monumentally stupid" to be freaking out about this, IMHO.
''Some of us started dying," said Robert Stanley, 56, director of research for Air Traffic Software Architectures Inc. in Ottawa. ''Heart attacks and the like. Thirty years of Twinkie-eating."
Finally, scientific proof that twinkie-eating has some positive attributes. They certainly don't taste good.
Please keep in mind, half the people there are likely allergic to cardboard, among many other things. No easy-to-come-by amount of calamine lotion could sooth that many rashes.
Google has now also locked the doors from the outside, making it even harder for employees to leave. Previously, all they had to do was unlock the door from the inside. Google cites several somewhat intelligent employees as the anarchists who learned of this unlocking trick.
"it draws attention to the fact that Google has drained the market of talent, caused a 25% to 50% hike in salaries and made it difficult for startups to get funding."
According to highly credible sources, upset Google employees everywhere are demanding lower pay, citing heavy feelings of insult for the rediculous amount of money they are receiving for the minor, unimaginative work they are involved in.
Google has locked the doors of all their development houses from the inside, fearing massive defection to more reasonable companies that tell their employees exactly what to do and when, eliminating the stifling processes of having to be creative. Updates to follow soon.
If I may interject some friendly debate, I have been lead to believe (perhaps correctly, perhaps incorrectly) that the pronunciation is similar to "dog" or "log." I welcome a confirmation of either.
Last time I checked, an Intel 286 processor circa 1988 and a 3700MHz Pentium IV processor circa 2005 were pretty close in size. Same goes for PPC and SPARCs . . . it's definitely not a size-factor change that would blow anyone's mind in the least.
While they could make smaller processors that make incremental (albeit somewhat large) gains with this technology, there would be no reason to shrink the CPU package size just because smaller is cuter. I almost think that you're refering entirely to the cases that your computer components go inside, not the internals themselves, but I'll give you more credit than that. Thank me later.
"We're going to have a devil of a time soldering these things, not to mention fitting them with heatsinks..."
Yeah, I'm sure Intel, AMD, and IBM are going to keep the same amount of transistors as they have today, but decrease the physical size of the CPU casing by 100-fold . . . actually I think they'll likely stay the same size and increase transistor density 100-fold instead. Don't you think?
Yes, there was nothing more satisfying than killing those squirels real dead with 2x2 pixel bullets ([spacebar][spacebar][spacebar][spacebar] [spacebar][spacebar][spacebar][spacebar][spacebar] [spacebar][spacebar][spacebar]. Oh sorry, forgive my reminicing. Anyhow, that raft trip down the river at the end was exilerating, wasn't it?
LOL, yes as we all know that Windows XP is only part of the cure for a midlife crisis and/or idiocy.
"I love Windows, but it makes my penis look small. Ooh look, an e-mail just for me? How'd they know what I needed? This interweb is amazing!"
Ahh, only now do I see that you have never played THE Mortal Kombat, had a SEGA Genesis, or utilized electricity my son. "A B A C A B B" is the Holy Code of Bloody Stuff(tm) for the original Mortal Kombat on the SEGA Genesis, which anyone with electricity would have CLEARLY owned.
To further enlighten you, may it be known that Nintendo, who clearly cared about the children, did not allow the creators of Mortal Kombat to include such awesome indecency in their misfortunately ass-sucking game. But Gord decreed Killer Instinct upon thym and there was silence.
I hope you have read my classic work of sarcasm I presented here for you today, and take it to heart. What about the children? What about the children!?!?!?
Amazing that such useful information could come out of such a stupid conversation. You are the man! Mod this dude +1 informative. Luckly though, the "toilet" has always been a letter-size envelope. Heh, enjoy that mental imagary.
And by mental imagary I'm talking about a dude squatting over an envelope . . and filling it with candy and rainbow bicycle streamers of course.
Great! Leave it to a communist to be the one to inform me of such an implicating fact. That said, I was talking about candy and rainbow bicycle handlebar streamers, not shit and piss. Come on! Have some decency. What else would you put in a USPS "toilet" and leave on the curb with no return address? A human head? That's just crazy!
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Oh yeah . . .
The Flowbee(tm) was a very real, very shitty product. Not so much shitty in construct, but in execution. You hooked up a powered attachment to a shop vac and applied it to the unlucky hair in question. There were length attachments like a normal pair of "buzzers," but the designers actually expected people to use it to trim long hair to a similarly long, yet slightly shorter, length.
You don't remember those infomercials? I think they sold them well into the mid-90's.
That's the problem with this article. The Xbox bundles they are refering to are not the core and "premium" core bundles being offered by Microsoft, but the rediculous bundles being offered by EB and GameStop with several additional games, controllers, and other miscellaneous accessories for hundreds of dollars more. I don't think the pricing of any of the "systems" on the list in the article are for bundles like that.
The big epiphany here though is that most of the systems on their list, save for the Neo-Geo, came out in the US first (or are not gaming consoles -- PDP-1, WTF?), so the benefit of scale-of-economy are lost because the hardware hasn't been in another territory for several months or years.
I'm too lazy to do the research, but the Genesis, SNES, Saturn, N64, PlayStation, Dreamcast, and PlayStation 2 were far more expensive (most $300+, some $400) when they came out in Japan, but were reduced in price partly due to lowered production costs once they reached U.S. shores. Difference in the economy of both countries in general played a small part in price difference, but such variances are usually only to the tune of $15-40 on a $300-400 product.
You posted a link to the same thread? My productivity just plummetted 37.23%. Thanks a lot.
I think the old proverb, "he who laughs last, laughs best" fits this situation most appropriately. We should all hope that that type of post is indeed intended as a sarcastic joke (one that aside from a small group of people, is only funny to the person who submitted it -- though I can imagine the minute of enjoyment that doing such a thing would bring).
Yeah, looks like they are now. They weren't when the story first broke. Maybe they saw everyone coming from Slashdot and read the post of the fellow above me or my own. I mean that half-jokingly, but either way it seems the influx of traffic flipped a switch in someone's head that those should probably be removed.
Either these guys are in cahoots with Microsoft, or they are a bunch of idiots. The serial numbers are even left unobscured in the pictures. Perhaps both their budget for legal matters and stock of high-profile lawyers trump that of Microsoft's. Surely.
I want to mod my Xbox 360, but I can imagine this will be one chip we won't be seeing anytime soon now.
"72 - Google Celebrating Google's 6th birthday -"
How loud do you think the implosion will be when Google finally triumphs over evil and brings down, er, Google? And Canada is a bitch, just like New Year's and Valentines day.
Wait a second now . . . this isn't a real survey, is it?
"Its" is proper for "it is", and the possesive of "it".
The poles flipping probably won't make humans feel different or anything, and barring any crazy concentration or increase in the the magnetic field during such a process, shouldn't affect electronics unless they are directly related to measuring the magnetic characteristics of Earth.
Many other animals, most notably birds migration habits, will be drastically altered when looking at the pole-flip phenomenon from a beginning-to-end perspective, but any changes to any living thing's behavior will be as subtle as any other process would be if spread out over several hundred years.
So yes, people are "monumentally stupid" to be freaking out about this, IMHO.
Amazingly, you're the second person to comment on that in the last hour. See: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=160165&cid=134 07985
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Also of note, see this drunken exclaimation I made several weeks ago: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=158213&thresh
Close. It's the blood code for the original Mortal Kombat on the SEGA Genesis. Kudo's friend!
''Some of us started dying," said Robert Stanley, 56, director of research for Air Traffic Software Architectures Inc. in Ottawa. ''Heart attacks and the like. Thirty years of Twinkie-eating."
Finally, scientific proof that twinkie-eating has some positive attributes. They certainly don't taste good.
Please keep in mind, half the people there are likely allergic to cardboard, among many other things. No easy-to-come-by amount of calamine lotion could sooth that many rashes.
Update:
Google has now also locked the doors from the outside, making it even harder for employees to leave. Previously, all they had to do was unlock the door from the inside. Google cites several somewhat intelligent employees as the anarchists who learned of this unlocking trick.
According to highly credible sources, upset Google employees everywhere are demanding lower pay, citing heavy feelings of insult for the rediculous amount of money they are receiving for the minor, unimaginative work they are involved in.
Google has locked the doors of all their development houses from the inside, fearing massive defection to more reasonable companies that tell their employees exactly what to do and when, eliminating the stifling processes of having to be creative. Updates to follow soon.
I don't get it. Why would they put them under the seats then?
If I may interject some friendly debate, I have been lead to believe (perhaps correctly, perhaps incorrectly) that the pronunciation is similar to "dog" or "log." I welcome a confirmation of either.
Whoops, I meant Intel 286 circa 1982. My ten-key h4x0rz skills are slowly declining.
Last time I checked, an Intel 286 processor circa 1988 and a 3700MHz Pentium IV processor circa 2005 were pretty close in size. Same goes for PPC and SPARCs . . . it's definitely not a size-factor change that would blow anyone's mind in the least.
While they could make smaller processors that make incremental (albeit somewhat large) gains with this technology, there would be no reason to shrink the CPU package size just because smaller is cuter. I almost think that you're refering entirely to the cases that your computer components go inside, not the internals themselves, but I'll give you more credit than that. Thank me later.
Yeah, I'm sure Intel, AMD, and IBM are going to keep the same amount of transistors as they have today, but decrease the physical size of the CPU casing by 100-fold . . . actually I think they'll likely stay the same size and increase transistor density 100-fold instead. Don't you think?
Yes, there was nothing more satisfying than killing those squirels real dead with 2x2 pixel bullets ([spacebar][spacebar][spacebar][spacebar] [spacebar][spacebar][spacebar][spacebar][spacebar] [spacebar][spacebar][spacebar]. Oh sorry, forgive my reminicing. Anyhow, that raft trip down the river at the end was exilerating, wasn't it?
LOL, yes as we all know that Windows XP is only part of the cure for a midlife crisis and/or idiocy. "I love Windows, but it makes my penis look small. Ooh look, an e-mail just for me? How'd they know what I needed? This interweb is amazing!"
Ahh, only now do I see that you have never played THE Mortal Kombat, had a SEGA Genesis, or utilized electricity my son. "A B A C A B B" is the Holy Code of Bloody Stuff(tm) for the original Mortal Kombat on the SEGA Genesis, which anyone with electricity would have CLEARLY owned.
To further enlighten you, may it be known that Nintendo, who clearly cared about the children, did not allow the creators of Mortal Kombat to include such awesome indecency in their misfortunately ass-sucking game. But Gord decreed Killer Instinct upon thym and there was silence.
I hope you have read my classic work of sarcasm I presented here for you today, and take it to heart. What about the children? What about the children!?!?!?
AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!
My apologies. Did I say communist, I meant to call you a totaltarian fascist.
But then again, even if I had called you a cannibal or a cowboy, I wouldn't mean it. So, uh, nevermind. Cheers!
Amazing that such useful information could come out of such a stupid conversation. You are the man! Mod this dude +1 informative. Luckly though, the "toilet" has always been a letter-size envelope. Heh, enjoy that mental imagary.
And by mental imagary I'm talking about a dude squatting over an envelope . . and filling it with candy and rainbow bicycle streamers of course.
Great! Leave it to a communist to be the one to inform me of such an implicating fact. That said, I was talking about candy and rainbow bicycle handlebar streamers, not shit and piss. Come on! Have some decency. What else would you put in a USPS "toilet" and leave on the curb with no return address? A human head? That's just crazy!