Also, speaking as a business owner, changing the bill's size would cost me time and money. No thanks!
You're one of those business owners who counts the paper clips and keeps the employee bathroom stocked with the cheap toilet paper, aren't you?
Speaking as a business owner, I'm very much in favor of anything that makes it easier for more people to give me their money, and I also just like being gracious and accessible to as many people as possible. Any decent business owner knows that some things are worth shelling out an initial expense for.
I wonder if Judge James Harvie Wilkinson III would be interested in letting me deposit sixty millions of American dollars into his bank accout for my deceased Nigerian prince brother while increasing the size of his manhood and curing any desease.
Carrying a drive with all the video in the world sounds like a great way to become the target of all the lawsuits in the world. Unless, of course, you have already paid all the money in the world for all the proper licensing rights in the world.
Just when normal mobile phone ringtones and conversations on the bus couldn't get any more obnoxious. I tellya what, the first fool to start up Brookers Brodack on his phone on my way to work is getting thrown right through the breakaway fire-exit window.
My PC plays DVDs, downloads from torrents and Usenet (shh!) and legit online streams (bless you Adult Swim!) My PC plays all the PC games and classic console ROMs I need it to. When I have a video card with the proper inputs, the PC displays my real game consoles as well. My last actual television died about four years ago, and I really never found a reason to replace it.
To be fair I'm not much of a fan of modern mainstream television, and the only two series (not counting Adult Swim) I really follow are British ones I can only torrent in until the DVDs make it here to the States, but with mainstream stuff like NBC's "Heroes" following the legit streaming model I can see standard televsions becoming an endangered species fairly soon.
Many areas currently plan to ditch plain old analog broadcasts in favor of digital, and I imagine that signal is really easy to plug into an Internet server rather than a cable company. I'd love to see a cost comparison of what it costs the networks to stream online versus broadcasting on the dwindling airwaves.
Who is going to pay to run the servers? Bandwidth costs, and servers cost.
How are you going to control cheating?
Now that I think about it, I guess if the game goes FOSS anyone willing to agree to the license and donate the work and bandwidth will be able to start up their own Ryzom server, thus taking on the responsibility for maintainance and rules-enforcement individually. There won't just be one Ryzom game, there will be good and not-so-good private and public servers just as with other games out there.
While I personally hate MMORPGs, I wish these fans the best of luck in acquiring the game. Something as large and mainstream as the #3 MMO going FOSS can only mean good things for open-source in general.
What I wonder, though, is who would actually run the game. A perusal of your fandom of choice's lower levels of fanfic will raise questions of the ability of even the most enthusiastic and well-meaning fans to actually run the canon.
Mouth swabs and finger pricks are clumsy and unreliable methods of DNA collection, traffic cops aren't qualified to administer medical procedures. We need something more self-service. How about handing a pulled-over suspect an underwear catalogue and a cup, and ordering them to.. well, you know?
I'd love to see the hideously important code he writes while flying on this stuff. I'll bet it's hilarious, and I really hope it's not running in any of my critical apps.
Sitemeter reports aren't that dependable, anyone can send it anything if they want. Thanks to boredom and Firefox's User Agent Switcher extension, I regularly clog up my friends' sitemeters with apparent hits from a Sega Master System, a brain in a jar, a GE washing machine, or the Mysterious Stone Tablets of Atlantis.
I'd like to see a Google OS, if only because I have enough of a Discordian streak to appreciate all of people's systems, work, and data based around an "I'm Feeling Lucky!" button.
Ah, CNet. Just when one thought you couldn't get any less useful, you squander a potentially really neat article idea on tired Simpsons and Paris Hilton jokes. I hate to say this to anyone.. but you are really not funny.
A girl geek friend of mine works for CNet. I wonder how well her and her fellows are taking this.
"Basically what you have is a large portion of the population, mostly younger people under the age of 45, who don't deal with reality -- ever. So they don't know what day it is; they don't know temperature it is; they don't know what their neighbor looks like. They don't know anything... because they are constantly diverted by a machine. Now what this does is it takes a person away from reality because they've created their own reality.
...Now stay tuned after the break for more of the Factor on Fox News.
Why specify that? Because the powers that be are not currently looking for excuses to tap your carrier pigeons or plastic cups. They want any legal backup they can get to make warrantless electronic surveillance of average citizens' Internet use seem just that much more sensible. Think of the children!
I wonder about the software functions which are there to enforce these bits of the EULA. How secureare they? How easy do you suppose it will eventually become for anyone to point a script at a Vista box owned by someone they don't like, and send instructions for the box to shut down with extreme prejudice and turn the user's data into chunky salsa?
I can't say I'd mind it so much. Frankly, if some sort of massive "Rob T Firefly eats babies" campaign was launched, and it was all traceable back to nothing more than an "Anonymous Coward" post somewhere, I'd hope that fact alone would take most of the wind out of its sails for anyone whose opinion of me really matters for whatever reason.
And hey, it's free publicity. Perhaps someone Googling for baby-eating sites will come upon me instead, and suddenly realize they need to hire someone with my skills for something totally unrelated to baby-eating.
Echoing many of the above posts, just get her a Mac. Don't get me wrong, I'm not much of a Mac person myself and I like Linux, but as much fun as getting and configuring a nice Ubuntu box for Grandma might be for you, and as much nerd cred it might get you to be able to tell all your LUG buddies about how you've got Granny on FOSS, it'll be just as much of a PITA for her and you in the long run. One thing Mac is light-years ahead of the competition on is usability and support to someone who has never seen a computer before, which means no panicking midnight calls to you.
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Will they have "Happy Days?" Because I'd love to buy that episode where Fonzie jumps over a shark on waterskis from Bittorrent.
Does Braille last on currency? I'd think it would get squashed flat after being stuffed into wallets and things.
Speaking as a business owner, I'm very much in favor of anything that makes it easier for more people to give me their money, and I also just like being gracious and accessible to as many people as possible. Any decent business owner knows that some things are worth shelling out an initial expense for.
I wonder if Judge James Harvie Wilkinson III would be interested in letting me deposit sixty millions of American dollars into his bank accout for my deceased Nigerian prince brother while increasing the size of his manhood and curing any desease.
Carrying a drive with all the video in the world sounds like a great way to become the target of all the lawsuits in the world. Unless, of course, you have already paid all the money in the world for all the proper licensing rights in the world.
Just when normal mobile phone ringtones and conversations on the bus couldn't get any more obnoxious. I tellya what, the first fool to start up Brookers Brodack on his phone on my way to work is getting thrown right through the breakaway fire-exit window.
My PC plays DVDs, downloads from torrents and Usenet (shh!) and legit online streams (bless you Adult Swim!) My PC plays all the PC games and classic console ROMs I need it to. When I have a video card with the proper inputs, the PC displays my real game consoles as well. My last actual television died about four years ago, and I really never found a reason to replace it.
To be fair I'm not much of a fan of modern mainstream television, and the only two series (not counting Adult Swim) I really follow are British ones I can only torrent in until the DVDs make it here to the States, but with mainstream stuff like NBC's "Heroes" following the legit streaming model I can see standard televsions becoming an endangered species fairly soon.
Many areas currently plan to ditch plain old analog broadcasts in favor of digital, and I imagine that signal is really easy to plug into an Internet server rather than a cable company. I'd love to see a cost comparison of what it costs the networks to stream online versus broadcasting on the dwindling airwaves.
Link seems slashdotted, so here's the mirrordot.
While I personally hate MMORPGs, I wish these fans the best of luck in acquiring the game. Something as large and mainstream as the #3 MMO going FOSS can only mean good things for open-source in general.
What I wonder, though, is who would actually run the game. A perusal of your fandom of choice's lower levels of fanfic will raise questions of the ability of even the most enthusiastic and well-meaning fans to actually run the canon.
Mouth swabs and finger pricks are clumsy and unreliable methods of DNA collection, traffic cops aren't qualified to administer medical procedures. We need something more self-service. How about handing a pulled-over suspect an underwear catalogue and a cup, and ordering them to.. well, you know?
I'd love to see the hideously important code he writes while flying on this stuff. I'll bet it's hilarious, and I really hope it's not running in any of my critical apps.
Sitemeter reports aren't that dependable, anyone can send it anything if they want. Thanks to boredom and Firefox's User Agent Switcher extension, I regularly clog up my friends' sitemeters with apparent hits from a Sega Master System, a brain in a jar, a GE washing machine, or the Mysterious Stone Tablets of Atlantis.
I'd like to see a Google OS, if only because I have enough of a Discordian streak to appreciate all of people's systems, work, and data based around an "I'm Feeling Lucky!" button.
Ah, CNet. Just when one thought you couldn't get any less useful, you squander a potentially really neat article idea on tired Simpsons and Paris Hilton jokes. I hate to say this to anyone.. but you are really not funny.
A girl geek friend of mine works for CNet. I wonder how well her and her fellows are taking this.
O'Reilly is complaining about people being "diverted by a machine."
For those unfamiliar with O'Reilly, he makes his living diverting people with machines, in his case televisions and radios.
Pot. Kettle.
Umm.. two of your college roommates != "most hardcore gamers."
Why specify that? Because the powers that be are not currently looking for excuses to tap your carrier pigeons or plastic cups. They want any legal backup they can get to make warrantless electronic surveillance of average citizens' Internet use seem just that much more sensible. Think of the children!
I wonder about the software functions which are there to enforce these bits of the EULA. How secureare they? How easy do you suppose it will eventually become for anyone to point a script at a Vista box owned by someone they don't like, and send instructions for the box to shut down with extreme prejudice and turn the user's data into chunky salsa?
I can't say I'd mind it so much. Frankly, if some sort of massive "Rob T Firefly eats babies" campaign was launched, and it was all traceable back to nothing more than an "Anonymous Coward" post somewhere, I'd hope that fact alone would take most of the wind out of its sails for anyone whose opinion of me really matters for whatever reason.
And hey, it's free publicity. Perhaps someone Googling for baby-eating sites will come upon me instead, and suddenly realize they need to hire someone with my skills for something totally unrelated to baby-eating.
Everyone wins.
Well, everyone except the babies. Mmmm, babies...
Echoing many of the above posts, just get her a Mac. Don't get me wrong, I'm not much of a Mac person myself and I like Linux, but as much fun as getting and configuring a nice Ubuntu box for Grandma might be for you, and as much nerd cred it might get you to be able to tell all your LUG buddies about how you've got Granny on FOSS, it'll be just as much of a PITA for her and you in the long run. One thing Mac is light-years ahead of the competition on is usability and support to someone who has never seen a computer before, which means no panicking midnight calls to you.
Hence my initial misreading of "Ares" as "Arse."
Next up: Jim Henson's Hobbit Babies.
Those look like latecomers to the story of the original lifting of the block earlier this week, which this story is about the end of.