On top of that, make the freaking ads destructible. I don't want to drop a grenade and have the whole area singed but the Pepsi ad is shiny and new.
Actually, making ads destructable should be required, but would also provide interesting metrics in terms of ad consumption. One would also assume that they would track how long each ad is viewed (directly and/or indirectly, while moving, the angle, etc.), and if people shoot it up or throw grenades at it.
What would also be interesting is to see if people change their routes (or run backwards through the map and then turning around to the left) through the maps to avoid a viewing the ads:)
what part of "as a whole" did you not understand? Clearly I was speaking about the parents that "work with real operating systems", since that's the majority of parents. I also meant *OUR* (as in/. readers') parents as a whole, so the average parent I would be referring to would not be a 40-yo.
Not intended as a "yo mama" joke, but here's what will happen: our parents, who as a whole are ignorant when it comes to computer issues, will see that Vista is "new and great" from the MS marketing mac--(pause)--hine, and think they need a new computer, since the last one they bought was when XP came out as the "new and great" thing from the MS marketing machine. Nevermind that all she's doing is checking her hotmail account for new pictures of her friend's grandchildren, she needs a new computer, because Madison Avenue told her she did. We're sheep--most of us at least.
At least this time, Vista is so secure that she doesn't need anti-virus;)
How many Mac users shop at Wal-Mart, or how many Wal-Mart customers buy Apple? I mean, Wal-Mart is towards the bottom of the retail chain, and Apple is at the top of the computer chain. Why would somebody who pays the Apple premium lower themselves to go to Wal-Mart?
I can't imagine people are coming here to find people to have sex with... isn't this the haven for people society has determined nobody wants to have sex with you?;)
p.s. I'll show you my Commander, if you show me your Taco...
Does the desktop market need 8 core machines? probably not for a while. But I would welcome 8 core chips for servers. just think of a rack of 14 blades, w/ 4 8-core blades? that's 448 in 9U (or 7U if you get the crappy chasis). that's insane density (and insane heat too). for hella density, 10 of the 7U bad boys and 4480 cores in a rack. friggin insane.
"The regular MacBook, surprisingly enough, since Apple is usually overpriced, matches up pretty well with PC manufacturers. It's hard to compare it directly because of the odd screen size, but it's only $100-$200 more than a PC, if even that."
Only $200 more? You're forgetting the value-adds of the bundled apps. It's more like $400 more when you add in the value of Windows bundled apps like calculator--and clock. They provide hours of fun, or at least minutes...
"Notable changes include notification that AT&T will track viewing habits of customers of its new video services Homezone and U-Verse, which is forbidden for cable and satellite companies, [...]"
Did anybody else find that the most shocking/suprising part of the article? I had just always assumed that the primary purpose of the digital boxes the cable company gives you was so that they could have more control over tracking what you're watching and when, but apparently my secret American Idol fetish is safe (at least from the cable company's datawharehouse).
- "I'm finally in a situation where food and shelter isn't taking the vast majority of my wages, and I'm breathing a lot easier because of it."
You must not be married... I was "finally in a situation where food and shelter isn't taking the vast majority of my wages", but the wife fixed that by moving from the suburbs to a nice big house in a nice area, new car, and now I'm back in a situation where shelter is taking the vast majority of my wages.
p.s. please don't mod this Funny, because it's not.
The, "there is no right to privacy in the constitution," argument requires a strict interpretation of the constitution and it's amendments, and that you completely ignore the 9th amendment which specifically addresses the concept of unenumerated rights. I'm so tired of this myth.
Umm, apparently you're not aware that GWB appointed 2 justices recently who are more Scalia than Breyer Ginsburg... SCOTUS is at best a "strict interpertation"-leaning body right now.
Have you rented/purchased a DVD recently? The only DVDs you can get w/o commercials are ones from Chinatown (they even edit out the FBI warning for you too). Even worse, you can't fast forward through them!
Mythbusters covered this already... your pee isn't coming out in a solid stream. if you slow it down with a high speed camera, you can see the liquid "breaking up" instead of forming a solid stream, so electricity wouldn't be conducted up to your junk.
If you're bill gates, and you have two options, which of these would you take?
sell OS X users Office and make money
don't sell OS X users Office and don't make money
*OBVIOUSLY* they would prefer to sell the end user Windows XP and Office, but having a customer who "only" purchases one of your products is better than not having that customer at all.
I don't know about you, but I'd rather have $50 than $0, but maybe that's just me...
I mean like notes/exchange/etc. Totally not intended as flamebait, are there any open source notes/exchange server alternatives that actually have integration with a decent client that do shared calendars, resource booking, shared todo lists, etc. (all the crap that notes/exchange give you)? Cause I have yet to find anything (I admit I haven't spend a TON of time looking yet...). I'm not talking about, "sure, if you download these 8 projects, and this merge, apply these patches, etc.", I mean a real groupware server that could be a viable Notes/Exchange replacement...
WOW! This must mean it's perfect now, no bugs! yay
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I bet they still will have patches for 5 year old versions of linux... if only linux was a perfect as windows 2000 is now..
In Minnesota, they passed a law that provides for tax-free zones for business that open/move to economically depressed areas (obviously a HUGE over simplification of the law).
It's pretty genious from a policy standpoint actually. Wouldn't you love to not have to pay state business income taxes?
My name is anonymous coward, and I totally live up to my name as being anonymous, and a coward. But that's ok, because that's my milieu.
I mock those that purport to have a clue as to what the hell they are talking about. The rest of the/. crowd needs to know that these people are full of shit, so this cycle of retarddum (yes, I made that word up) can stop! I can't tell you how many posts I see in the threads about "constitional issues" (freedom of speech/press/etc) that get moded up to "+5 Informative" that couldn't be more factually incorrect if they were written by a M$ press release copy writer.
If you're going to state something as fact, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE look in at least one other place than ACLU.org, crazysocialsts.fr, or ilovemytinfoilhat.net.
well, that would depend on the enforcability of the EULA, because as the EULA is written, CA law is all that matters. You could file locally and challange jurisdiction saying the EULA was uninforcable or non-binding or dig for some other weird grounds, but 99.999% of the time, you'll loose that, especially since it would be hard to say you didn't agree to if if you're attempting to force them to live up to what you believe they promised in it... "Your Honor, I ask that you enforce section 3, but ignore section 13. Pretty please; I can't afford to travel to LA to file this to get my $40 back."
The long and short of it is, unless this is a class action, NOTHING will happen in court. The damage is NOWHERE near high enough for anybody to waste their time and money on this.
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Actually, making ads destructable should be required, but would also provide interesting metrics in terms of ad consumption. One would also assume that they would track how long each ad is viewed (directly and/or indirectly, while moving, the angle, etc.), and if people shoot it up or throw grenades at it.
What would also be interesting is to see if people change their routes (or run backwards through the map and then turning around to the left) through the maps to avoid a viewing the ads
I appologize in advance...
I'd go with the mirror from India. The trojan has probably slipped off the executable, and the executable is going to be smaller to boot!
I hate myself...
what part of "as a whole" did you not understand? Clearly I was speaking about the parents that "work with real operating systems", since that's the majority of parents. I also meant *OUR* (as in /. readers') parents as a whole, so the average parent I would be referring to would not be a 40-yo.
Not intended as a "yo mama" joke, but here's what will happen: our parents, who as a whole are ignorant when it comes to computer issues, will see that Vista is "new and great" from the MS marketing mac--(pause)--hine, and think they need a new computer, since the last one they bought was when XP came out as the "new and great" thing from the MS marketing machine. Nevermind that all she's doing is checking her hotmail account for new pictures of her friend's grandchildren, she needs a new computer, because Madison Avenue told her she did. We're sheep--most of us at least.
;)
At least this time, Vista is so secure that she doesn't need anti-virus
How many Mac users shop at Wal-Mart, or how many Wal-Mart customers buy Apple? I mean, Wal-Mart is towards the bottom of the retail chain, and Apple is at the top of the computer chain. Why would somebody who pays the Apple premium lower themselves to go to Wal-Mart?
If Microsoft will sell me a Zune for the same price as IE cost me during the IE vs. Netscape wars, DRM be damned, I'll be getting me a Zune...
I can't imagine people are coming here to find people to have sex with... isn't this the haven for people society has determined nobody wants to have sex with you? ;)
p.s. I'll show you my Commander, if you show me your Taco...
Does the desktop market need 8 core machines? probably not for a while. But I would welcome 8 core chips for servers. just think of a rack of 14 blades, w/ 4 8-core blades? that's 448 in 9U (or 7U if you get the crappy chasis). that's insane density (and insane heat too). for hella density, 10 of the 7U bad boys and 4480 cores in a rack. friggin insane.
(Unfortunately,) Slashdot needs a "Sad but True" moderation...
"The regular MacBook, surprisingly enough, since Apple is usually overpriced, matches up pretty well with PC manufacturers. It's hard to compare it directly because of the odd screen size, but it's only $100-$200 more than a PC, if even that."
Only $200 more? You're forgetting the value-adds of the bundled apps. It's more like $400 more when you add in the value of Windows bundled apps like calculator--and clock. They provide hours of fun, or at least minutes...
"Notable changes include notification that AT&T will track viewing habits of customers of its new video services Homezone and U-Verse, which is forbidden for cable and satellite companies, [...]"
Did anybody else find that the most shocking/suprising part of the article? I had just always assumed that the primary purpose of the digital boxes the cable company gives you was so that they could have more control over tracking what you're watching and when, but apparently my secret American Idol fetish is safe (at least from the cable company's datawharehouse).
- "I'm finally in a situation where food and shelter isn't taking the vast majority of my wages, and I'm breathing a lot easier because of it."
You must not be married... I was "finally in a situation where food and shelter isn't taking the vast majority of my wages", but the wife fixed that by moving from the suburbs to a nice big house in a nice area, new car, and now I'm back in a situation where shelter is taking the vast majority of my wages.
p.s. please don't mod this Funny, because it's not.
The, "there is no right to privacy in the constitution," argument requires a strict interpretation of the constitution and it's amendments, and that you completely ignore the 9th amendment which specifically addresses the concept of unenumerated rights. I'm so tired of this myth.
Umm, apparently you're not aware that GWB appointed 2 justices recently who are more Scalia than Breyer Ginsburg... SCOTUS is at best a "strict interpertation"-leaning body right now.
Have you rented/purchased a DVD recently? The only DVDs you can get w/o commercials are ones from Chinatown (they even edit out the FBI warning for you too). Even worse, you can't fast forward through them!
Bad state of affairs...
Mythbusters covered this already... your pee isn't coming out in a solid stream. if you slow it down with a high speed camera, you can see the liquid "breaking up" instead of forming a solid stream, so electricity wouldn't be conducted up to your junk.
I'm so all over that when Costco carrys these. The question though: does it go with Urns & Caskets or Electronics, Cameras & TVs?
Will the be able to survive loosing the lucrative Norweigen government contract?!?
Would be nice to see this from a government/organization that purchased more than 13 licenses...
- sell OS X users Office and make money
- don't sell OS X users Office and don't make money
*OBVIOUSLY* they would prefer to sell the end user Windows XP and Office, but having a customer who "only" purchases one of your products is better than not having that customer at all.I don't know about you, but I'd rather have $50 than $0, but maybe that's just me...
I mean like notes/exchange/etc. Totally not intended as flamebait, are there any open source notes/exchange server alternatives that actually have integration with a decent client that do shared calendars, resource booking, shared todo lists, etc. (all the crap that notes/exchange give you)? Cause I have yet to find anything (I admit I haven't spend a TON of time looking yet...). I'm not talking about, "sure, if you download these 8 projects, and this merge, apply these patches, etc.", I mean a real groupware server that could be a viable Notes/Exchange replacement...
I bet they still will have patches for 5 year old versions of linux... if only linux was a perfect as windows 2000 is now..
;)
Power over Ethernet
It's pretty genious from a policy standpoint actually. Wouldn't you love to not have to pay state business income taxes?
I mock those that purport to have a clue as to what the hell they are talking about. The rest of the /. crowd needs to know that these people are full of shit, so this cycle of retarddum (yes, I made that word up) can stop! I can't tell you how many posts I see in the threads about "constitional issues" (freedom of speech/press/etc) that get moded up to "+5 Informative" that couldn't be more factually incorrect if they were written by a M$ press release copy writer.
If you're going to state something as fact, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE look in at least one other place than ACLU.org, crazysocialsts.fr, or ilovemytinfoilhat.net.
Thank you.
The long and short of it is, unless this is a class action, NOTHING will happen in court. The damage is NOWHERE near high enough for anybody to waste their time and money on this.
To the original poster: this will teach you to try and save $20... http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000 067FDW/