The first line of the article is "If the plan is perfectly executed".
That's quite a big IF. Out of the millions of plans ever executed, how many are done perfectly? I hope they're not basing everything with the hope that it will go perfectly.
Curious what happened?
I moved out of that guys house a couple of months later, because he was a dickhead, continued to use my brand new bank account and forgot about it. About 3 months ago, I started getting letters from debt collectors sent to my work address. They got really heavy about it too with legal threats. The most ironic thing is that I do the same thing (credit management) for my job.
Why didn't I update my licence?
Mainly because it was only a provisional licence at the time, and I don't own a car. I live in the UK so there's no particular law saying you need to update your details unless you're actually using a car.
Working for Burger King Time is money, and even if you work for Burger King your free time is worth a lot.
If I worked for Burger King, my free time would be very valuable indeed. To find a new job with, BK can't pay for my extravagant lifestyle. Rent, bills, food and crazy shit like that!
Last year I had some *major* trouble with my bank. I opened the account some months prior to this incident. I received a letter from the bank stating that they had not taken sufficient ID when I opened my account, and they would need me to go to the branch and give them some fresh ID. I went down there on my lunch break and gave them my drivers licence, and a letter written & signed by the guy I rented a room off together with a bill in his name saying I lived at that address.
They didn't accept my drivers licence (the only photo ID I had at the time) at all because the address was invalid. I'd only recently moved from the address I opened the account with, which was on the licence.
I could not satisfy the banks requirement for identifcation no matter how hard I tried, my employers were unable to provide anything either.
My account was frozen, a cheque bounced and they kept applying charges. Nice that they could deduct money from my account while I couldn't. That whole situation really screwed me up for a while, I had to get paid by cheque, open a new account change all my direct debits etc.
I wanted to create a campaign against that bank, but was advised against it by my colleagues & friends, because they would just take me to the cleaners for libel. And that was a bank, I'd have really been screwed hard!
i just dont get why the ip[od is so successful, it breaks the whole time, and its so bloody incompatible with everything why wasnt it beaten by the zune or the zen, any why didnt google make one?
I remember buying this game. At least twice. (Once it was bundled in with Theme Park or something)
I don't have the files from back then. I've moved house so many times, and purged so much crap so to speak. There's no way I'm going to get the receipts either. A nice idea, but I don't have the original files as someone else noted.
I thank you for you recommendation but I have no access to the original files the installer is asking for, would you be so kind and give me a copy?
Are you still playing the first Settlers or are you going with the second or possibly the remake thereof now?
I've played all of the Settlers games. My enjoyment of each game decreases with each version... I remember Settlers III being pretty good. Might have been II though, its so long ago my memory is fuzzy.
Comfort games? Not that I would usually 'comfort' myself with video games, more often I comfort myself with indulgence:p Anyway, mine would be:
San Andreas. Sometimes I have a bad day and want to shoot stuff, beat some hookers, blow up some cars etc. Quite often I will load the game, and not do any missions. Just blow shit up for as long as possible. For fun.
C&C Generals. It's so fun to play against friends on a LAN, and it's so warming to hear a Scottish pal yell obscenities after a carefully planned assult on his base. It's also fun on skirmish mode, solo. I'll do battle against the CPU, and win. That makes me feel a little better.
Settlers. I loved this game, played it as a young teen. I played the first one to death. So did my younger sister, and occasionally I'd tell her the level password so she could try and beat it. That was fun. I remember enjoying the little swordfights.
Transport Tycoon. Sorry, I love this game. It was and is great. Tried to get Locomotion working today, but XP is crashing on it for some reason (must me some driver error, I'll work it out). Anyway, what a classic game. So much fun.
The Sims. Fine, it is basically a virtual doll house, but its mindless and easy to lose yourself in. I remember many years back, a friend and I tried 'hash cake' - my friend stared at the ceiling for hours and I played (the first) Sims. For about ten hours solid. All of the people in my house had top level jobs, not that it matters now though.
While games are engrossing and fun to play, and it is so easy to spend that many hours on them, they're not the hours you're going to remember in ten years time. The comparison with 'comfort foods' is apt though, I don't remember what food I comforted myself with two years ago either. Labelling something a 'comfort' doesn't really say anything though. We're all different, and what comforts me may completely unsettle another. For instance, I might smoke in a tense situation and in doing that I make someone uncomfortable.
Different strokes for different folks. This is just a poll rather than an article though.
The screenshot reminds me of my mother or my sisters computer every time I go over there. They're always ending up with crap like "mycoolsearch", I did an adaware search and got something like 600 items the first time I tried it. I got fed up, and installed firefox and made IE less obvious on the computers.
I go back two weeks later, and now firefox has a mycoolsearch toolbar! Arrg.
Seeing as the article was still in my browser, and is now slashdotted I copied the text here.
The iPod has dominated the MP3 player (and portable video player) market so far. It began the ultimate revolution in how we listen to our music. Competitors have come and gone, while the iPod stood strong, but really, will the iPod ever die? Well there are a few points that say NO and some that say YES.
NO! It will not die! (at the bottom of the article we look at the possibility of it actually dying, but for now the NO points outweigh the YES)
1. Its just too cool
The iPod has become so much of a cool factor today that teens prefer it over any other MP3 player. They don't care much about functionality, but how cool it looks. That's where Apple's ingenious design wins them over, and as long as the whole social group has iPods, it's going to stay that way. People just don't consider the Rio players or Zune cool looking: as the Apple sleek white design is just so much simpler. And Apple is getting better every day, with the recent introduction of colors (which we all love) and at even tinier (way cooler) iPod shuffle. So the driving force behind the iPod's success is it is the coolest thing to have, to use, to show off, to carry around; and it will stay that way at the pace that Apple is making it cooler every season.
2. Its known
When we think of MP3 players we think Pod. That was not true a few years ago, MP3 player could mean Sony or Philips or any other brand, but today the word that first pops into our head is iPod. The iPod is now global, even here in India we see the white ear buds walking the streets. You can get an iPod probably anywhere in the world.
3. Price
Apple always has very competitive pricing for iPods, especially with the iPod shuffle. That's one of the main factors teens look at, and combine that with the fact it's just so cool, hey, how can we resist?
4. Competitors aren't getting it.
Competitors like Creative and recently Microsoft (although the Zune does have a lot of potential) don't know what the current generation is and what they want. We want simply stuff, which looks good and works. While competitors focus more on functionality which not many will use, Apple focuses on pushing the limits of creative design: which many people appreciate more. Would you rather have a tiny glossy iPod which plays MP3s only or a bigger bulkier competitor's product which plays all known formats? Exactly. Apple made sense of it all giving us only what we will need, and sometimes more.
5. Accessories in all directions
We all love to personalize our stuff. Apple lets you do that with the countless number of accessories. It's like pimping your car with rims: iSkins for iPods, headphones with glowing wires, lanyards, stick ons and what not. No company in the near future can create so much personalization to match up with what the iPod already has in its large accessory market.
6. We don't like to change.
Once an iPod user, probably always an iPod user. If the iPod was your first MP3 player, you will probably never change if it's worked well for you. When you plan to upgrade you will go for the newest iPod, not the Zune.
7. Getting better.
The iPod is getting better every season. With smaller sizes, bigger drives, better functions etc. So far no company has been able to match with the pace that Apple has set in introducing new iPods which keep us anticipated to what they will do next.
8. Personal Touch
Mentally we are fixed that Microsoft is a big company with no taste and no 'coolness'. We see Apple as a bunch of fun loving guys which brings them closer to you than Microsoft or Creative. Their fun Ads on TV or their quiet sense of humor sometimes allows us to connect with the brand easier.
9. Killing the PC
As Apple converts even more people to Macs (and businesses) and as Macs get cheaper and more compatible with Windows, the iPod parade follows. More Macs, more iP
Granted, there have been some fantastic inventions in the history of man. Like the wheel, that's still going pretty strong and with a massive distribution even now. Will the iPod follow in its footsteps? Unlikely that it's not going to 'ever die'. So yes, it will. Might take five years, might take twenty; but yes it will die.
Surely they'd only be buying the YouTube name. Google has way more hardware, and an already succesful video product out there. Maybe they are trying to eliminate the competition, and get the ad revenue all for themselves. Is YouTube really worth that much to them though?
If a legitimate copy is not bought within 30 days, the system will curtail functionality much further by restricting users to just the Web browser for an hour at a time
I'm pretty certain that serious terrorist groups don't publish their group meeting dates in their local press, so what is this planning to acheive? And what does it need AI for? Any of the threats that are reported, such as proposed nuclear tests are widely reported and don't need AI to tell us that they're in the news.
Electricity price isn't a concern for me, as it's inclusive in the rent I pay. Which has the negative effect that am not as careful as I would be if I were directly footing the bill myself.
Shell out $9,000 for the ugly windmill in your backyard and have electricity at 4 times the price you currently pay for twenty years? No, that's not worth it at all. Unless of course you are a rich eco-warrior, but you don't see many of those around.
We need more green power, but right now it's not economical for Joe Average. In the future perhaps.
Tesco offers cheap, cheap prices to the consumer. To do this they really screw their suppliers, because they have such a market presence that allows them to pretty much dictate the rate at which they buy their goods.
Also, I used to work for a very large logistics firm that handled a lot of their deliveries. They string their suppliers out in terms of paying them too. They are awful customers. That said though, you can't argue with their prices. I wish there was one near me, I'd shop there.
I've never worked in a 'cube farm' by definition. Places I've worked have always had 'banks' of desks, usually in groups of four. At my last job, we had low (1/2 ft) walls between each of the desks, and at my new job we just have four desks jammed together. I prefer the later, although it does mean my colleagues can encroach on my office space, but it is handy for passing the holepunch etc.
Anywhere I've worked, the whole team can see each others faces at all times - unless we have our heads down studying papers or whatever, but even then if you call our names we'll look up. I like being able to see my colleagues because I can just say a name and ask for advice/help/etc and get it instantly in person.
This doesn't affect the average user, or even creator of GIFs. I imagine that companies like Adobe would not have to pay a royalty any longer, but this saving is unlikely to be passed to purchasers of image software.
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The first line of the article is "If the plan is perfectly executed".
That's quite a big IF. Out of the millions of plans ever executed, how many are done perfectly? I hope they're not basing everything with the hope that it will go perfectly.
Curious what happened?
I moved out of that guys house a couple of months later, because he was a dickhead, continued to use my brand new bank account and forgot about it. About 3 months ago, I started getting letters from debt collectors sent to my work address. They got really heavy about it too with legal threats. The most ironic thing is that I do the same thing (credit management) for my job.
Why didn't I update my licence?
Mainly because it was only a provisional licence at the time, and I don't own a car. I live in the UK so there's no particular law saying you need to update your details unless you're actually using a car.
Working for Burger King
Time is money, and even if you work for Burger King your free time is worth a lot.
If I worked for Burger King, my free time would be very valuable indeed. To find a new job with, BK can't pay for my extravagant lifestyle. Rent, bills, food and crazy shit like that!
Last year I had some *major* trouble with my bank. I opened the account some months prior to this incident. I received a letter from the bank stating that they had not taken sufficient ID when I opened my account, and they would need me to go to the branch and give them some fresh ID. I went down there on my lunch break and gave them my drivers licence, and a letter written & signed by the guy I rented a room off together with a bill in his name saying I lived at that address.
They didn't accept my drivers licence (the only photo ID I had at the time) at all because the address was invalid. I'd only recently moved from the address I opened the account with, which was on the licence.
I could not satisfy the banks requirement for identifcation no matter how hard I tried, my employers were unable to provide anything either.
My account was frozen, a cheque bounced and they kept applying charges. Nice that they could deduct money from my account while I couldn't. That whole situation really screwed me up for a while, I had to get paid by cheque, open a new account change all my direct debits etc.
I wanted to create a campaign against that bank, but was advised against it by my colleagues & friends, because they would just take me to the cleaners for libel. And that was a bank, I'd have really been screwed hard!
I used to work for a logistics company, and we dealt with 'light goods' all the time.
Oh.
I don't have the files from back then. I've moved house so many times, and purged so much crap so to speak. There's no way I'm going to get the receipts either. A nice idea, but I don't have the original files as someone else noted.
I'm as frustrated as you buddy.
I've played all of the Settlers games. My enjoyment of each game decreases with each version... I remember Settlers III being pretty good. Might have been II though, its so long ago my memory is fuzzy.
Comfort games? Not that I would usually 'comfort' myself with video games, more often I comfort myself with indulgence :p Anyway, mine would be:
San Andreas. Sometimes I have a bad day and want to shoot stuff, beat some hookers, blow up some cars etc. Quite often I will load the game, and not do any missions. Just blow shit up for as long as possible. For fun.
C&C Generals. It's so fun to play against friends on a LAN, and it's so warming to hear a Scottish pal yell obscenities after a carefully planned assult on his base. It's also fun on skirmish mode, solo. I'll do battle against the CPU, and win. That makes me feel a little better.
Settlers. I loved this game, played it as a young teen. I played the first one to death. So did my younger sister, and occasionally I'd tell her the level password so she could try and beat it. That was fun. I remember enjoying the little swordfights.
Transport Tycoon. Sorry, I love this game. It was and is great. Tried to get Locomotion working today, but XP is crashing on it for some reason (must me some driver error, I'll work it out). Anyway, what a classic game. So much fun.
The Sims. Fine, it is basically a virtual doll house, but its mindless and easy to lose yourself in. I remember many years back, a friend and I tried 'hash cake' - my friend stared at the ceiling for hours and I played (the first) Sims. For about ten hours solid. All of the people in my house had top level jobs, not that it matters now though.
While games are engrossing and fun to play, and it is so easy to spend that many hours on them, they're not the hours you're going to remember in ten years time. The comparison with 'comfort foods' is apt though, I don't remember what food I comforted myself with two years ago either. Labelling something a 'comfort' doesn't really say anything though. We're all different, and what comforts me may completely unsettle another. For instance, I might smoke in a tense situation and in doing that I make someone uncomfortable.
Different strokes for different folks. This is just a poll rather than an article though.
The screenshot reminds me of my mother or my sisters computer every time I go over there. They're always ending up with crap like "mycoolsearch", I did an adaware search and got something like 600 items the first time I tried it. I got fed up, and installed firefox and made IE less obvious on the computers.
I go back two weeks later, and now firefox has a mycoolsearch toolbar! Arrg.
Seeing as the article was still in my browser, and is now slashdotted I copied the text here.
The iPod has dominated the MP3 player (and portable video player) market so far. It began the ultimate revolution in how we listen to our music. Competitors have come and gone, while the iPod stood strong, but really, will the iPod ever die? Well there are a few points that say NO and some that say YES.
NO! It will not die! (at the bottom of the article we look at the possibility of it actually dying, but for now the NO points outweigh the YES)
1. Its just too cool
The iPod has become so much of a cool factor today that teens prefer it over any other MP3 player. They don't care much about functionality, but how cool it looks. That's where Apple's ingenious design wins them over, and as long as the whole social group has iPods, it's going to stay that way. People just don't consider the Rio players or Zune cool looking: as the Apple sleek white design is just so much simpler. And Apple is getting better every day, with the recent introduction of colors (which we all love) and at even tinier (way cooler) iPod shuffle. So the driving force behind the iPod's success is it is the coolest thing to have, to use, to show off, to carry around; and it will stay that way at the pace that Apple is making it cooler every season.
2. Its known
When we think of MP3 players we think Pod. That was not true a few years ago, MP3 player could mean Sony or Philips or any other brand, but today the word that first pops into our head is iPod. The iPod is now global, even here in India we see the white ear buds walking the streets. You can get an iPod probably anywhere in the world.
3. Price
Apple always has very competitive pricing for iPods, especially with the iPod shuffle. That's one of the main factors teens look at, and combine that with the fact it's just so cool, hey, how can we resist?
4. Competitors aren't getting it.
Competitors like Creative and recently Microsoft (although the Zune does have a lot of potential) don't know what the current generation is and what they want. We want simply stuff, which looks good and works. While competitors focus more on functionality which not many will use, Apple focuses on pushing the limits of creative design: which many people appreciate more. Would you rather have a tiny glossy iPod which plays MP3s only or a bigger bulkier competitor's product which plays all known formats? Exactly. Apple made sense of it all giving us only what we will need, and sometimes more.
5. Accessories in all directions
We all love to personalize our stuff. Apple lets you do that with the countless number of accessories. It's like pimping your car with rims: iSkins for iPods, headphones with glowing wires, lanyards, stick ons and what not. No company in the near future can create so much personalization to match up with what the iPod already has in its large accessory market.
6. We don't like to change.
Once an iPod user, probably always an iPod user. If the iPod was your first MP3 player, you will probably never change if it's worked well for you. When you plan to upgrade you will go for the newest iPod, not the Zune.
7. Getting better.
The iPod is getting better every season. With smaller sizes, bigger drives, better functions etc. So far no company has been able to match with the pace that Apple has set in introducing new iPods which keep us anticipated to what they will do next.
8. Personal Touch
Mentally we are fixed that Microsoft is a big company with no taste and no 'coolness'. We see Apple as a bunch of fun loving guys which brings them closer to you than Microsoft or Creative. Their fun Ads on TV or their quiet sense of humor sometimes allows us to connect with the brand easier.
9. Killing the PC
As Apple converts even more people to Macs (and businesses) and as Macs get cheaper and more compatible with Windows, the iPod parade follows. More Macs, more iP
Granted, there have been some fantastic inventions in the history of man. Like the wheel, that's still going pretty strong and with a massive distribution even now. Will the iPod follow in its footsteps? Unlikely that it's not going to 'ever die'. So yes, it will. Might take five years, might take twenty; but yes it will die.
Surely they'd only be buying the YouTube name. Google has way more hardware, and an already succesful video product out there. Maybe they are trying to eliminate the competition, and get the ad revenue all for themselves. Is YouTube really worth that much to them though?
I'm pretty certain that serious terrorist groups don't publish their group meeting dates in their local press, so what is this planning to acheive? And what does it need AI for? Any of the threats that are reported, such as proposed nuclear tests are widely reported and don't need AI to tell us that they're in the news.
Electricity price isn't a concern for me, as it's inclusive in the rent I pay. Which has the negative effect that am not as careful as I would be if I were directly footing the bill myself.
Shell out $9,000 for the ugly windmill in your backyard and have electricity at 4 times the price you currently pay for twenty years? No, that's not worth it at all. Unless of course you are a rich eco-warrior, but you don't see many of those around.
We need more green power, but right now it's not economical for Joe Average. In the future perhaps.
We renamed that planet centuries ago to stop all the silly jokes.
What did you call it?
Urectum.
I bought a Duct Tape wallet which arrived today. I like it. It's a bit stiffer at the moment than my previous 10-year old one.
Tesco offers cheap, cheap prices to the consumer. To do this they really screw their suppliers, because they have such a market presence that allows them to pretty much dictate the rate at which they buy their goods.
Also, I used to work for a very large logistics firm that handled a lot of their deliveries. They string their suppliers out in terms of paying them too. They are awful customers. That said though, you can't argue with their prices. I wish there was one near me, I'd shop there.
The modern world can bite my splintery wooden ass!
A small triumph, but I want to relish in it. That was me!
I searched for Roland_Piquepaille on Wikipedia, and guess what - it redirected to slashdot. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_Piquepaille
I'm gonna go ahead and nominate that for speedy deletion, as Wikipedia says - be bold
I've never worked in a 'cube farm' by definition. Places I've worked have always had 'banks' of desks, usually in groups of four. At my last job, we had low (1/2 ft) walls between each of the desks, and at my new job we just have four desks jammed together. I prefer the later, although it does mean my colleagues can encroach on my office space, but it is handy for passing the holepunch etc.
Anywhere I've worked, the whole team can see each others faces at all times - unless we have our heads down studying papers or whatever, but even then if you call our names we'll look up. I like being able to see my colleagues because I can just say a name and ask for advice/help/etc and get it instantly in person.
This doesn't affect the average user, or even creator of GIFs. I imagine that companies like Adobe would not have to pay a royalty any longer, but this saving is unlikely to be passed to purchasers of image software.