If you look at his "The Score" page from his site (not on the bar monkey page) you'll notice that he's been looking into getting a patent on something. I wonder if that's the reason there's no source or detailed info.
3. Service has consistently fallen from day one, and I was a subscriber for over a year and I live 15 miles from their location. It has come to my mind more than once that the longer you subscribe the lower your priority as a customer is. They also seem to have a tactic of delaying recieving a movie. My friends and I tested this by mailing back a movie from Chicago and also mailing me a letter at the same time. I got my letter DAYS in advance of netflix acknowledging recieving the DVD.
Yeah, but your friend used 1st class mail, right? Netflix uses bulk mail, which is slower and far less expensive.
5. We've noticed a trend where they lose movies when you cancel service and then they charge a PREMIUM for the movies. 30$??? C'mon, I could buy the movie and ship them a replacement for less. And you know that they have to have some sort of quantity purchase discount. They rip you off on money at every turn it seems.
Actually they have to buy special versions of their movies in order to be authorized to rent them. These licenses cost $100+ per disc, IIRC.
Yeah, exactly - I either feel sorry for the guy, because he probably made an honest mistake (albeit a stupid one) and now is getting absolutely ripped apart over it....or I think the entire thing is funny as hell. I smell troll. That would definitely be the funniest thing I've seen in these parts in a LONG time.
I don't think I've met anyone stupid enough to know what he was doing and STILL do what old Bernie did. So its got to be either an honest mistake or a troll.
do you go to oral roberts university in tulsa, ok? b/c the rules of internet access you talk about sound a lot like the ones they have there. (one of my good friends goes there)
i dont know about you, but at my university (university of illinois) we are certainly allowed to look at porn. last time i checked universities were supposedly a place for freedom of expression....porn being one of those expressions. whatever.
oooh - I bet bush is shaking in his boots. A bunch of slashdot geeks are gonna vote against him. Ouch. He didn't get the slashdot vote the first time.
Now that the shit has broken loose in NYC, no one's gonna worry about this for a good long time.
Besides the fact that Microsoft owns all this IP. They should be able to do whatever the hell they want with it. Bundle a web browser - great! Now I don't have to find it on the web somewhere. Bundle an IM program. Great! Now I don't have to look for it.
I use a Mac. I use Linux on the PC platform. But Microsoft should still be able to do what they want with their property.
Used to be that you'd be able to use apple's cube, with its complete lack of fans and whatnot, but no more.
And to those who'll bitch about a Mac not running Wintel apps - Virtual PC does a pretty good job. I bet you could get these older games to run in Virtual PC.
Good thinking, moron. How many teachers would look at this, and say "well, my students thought I was boring. I'm going to lose my job, so we'll just watch a bunch of dumb movies, surf the web, discuss pop culture, or talk to our friends, instead of discussing the topic"
I mean, honestly. How many students honestly enjoy all of history, english, or math, no matter how interesting the teacher is in those subjects. I'd be willing to bet, not many.
I loved history (and math, and science, incidentally), but honestly, (and she was still one of my favorite teachers, mainly because she was a wonderful person outside class) my history teacher was *boring*. In fact, I got so bored, I actually read the text for fun. In this way, I probably learned a lot more than I would have by actually paying attention, but most students would have (and did) slept.
The state of our schools isn't (in my experience) as bad as many think. I went to a school of about 150 students, and it was wonderful. We had internet classes that helped to make up for the lack of curriculum due to such a small school. My calculus teacher was honestly amazing. My computer teacher, while not a great *computer* teacher, was still one of the best teachers you'll find. And the history teacher I mentioned above was also excellent, in her own, boring, way. (One area that was a bit lacking was English.:-( )
America's schools are ok. Our test scores may fall behind other countries, but our schools teach our kids to think and analyze much better than those countries, where they actually teach mainly to the test. The call for standardized testing is going to pull America into the same trap - we can't let this happen.
We need to recruit and reward our best teachers. Teaching is one of our most important professions - so why do they get paid like shit? Please, when your local school board asks for a tax raise so they can pay our teachers - give it to them! Teachers are important! Why would a competent math or computer teacher teach in a high school - when he or she could go work in corporate america for 10x the cash? The few good ones that are left are there because they truely love it, and we're lucky to have 'em. The rest, well, they say "those who can't, teach." And that's sad...we should have nothing BUT the best for our youth.
And to those who think that new technology is ruining our youth...please. Math teachers have said that about everything from chalk to pencils. Technology doesn't hurt our kids....today's most advanced technology is greatly helped by technology. Integrals are commonly looked up in charts - a ruidmentary form of technology. Technology isn't going to hurt anything.
Please look at the history of education, apply a bit of common sense, and look for the good instead of only the bad before berating our schools. Its not as bad as many believe.
hey now...watch yourself. heh...i had doom running on my laptop last night, and one of better girl-friends was like "wow! i used to play that *all the time!*"
i told her i had newfound respect. i had never actually met a girl who played doom. LOL
actually, does the RIAA get a portion of the money the indie-labels make in the form of the RIAA tax that we pay on blank CDs? (well blank audio-CDs, b/c i have noticed that in many stores the blanks which are labeled "audio CD" are a few dollars more expensive than the ones labeled "for computer use only" even though they are the same thing.)
I mean, if you buy a CD from an indie label, but they had to pay the RIAA tax on their blanks, then does that defeat the purpose? (other than better music, of course)
>> This I do not doubt. But I am surprised to see >> that you write lowercase 'i' in place of >> uppercase 'I'. Surely you are mature enough >> now to be an 'I' rather than an 'i'? ('i' is >> for the 12-yr-olds who can't ICQ).
surely you realize that IIRC english is the only major language to capitolize "I" when used to refer to ones self. whether i follow standard english rules or not does nothing to determine whether i can make decisions better than someone who does. that has nothing to do with it.
>> Not all of us adults in the USA are idiots.:) i didnt say that
i would agree with one of the others in this thread...if you pay taxes or are eligable for other gov't programs to take things away from you then you should be able to vote after demonstrating the knowledge nessessary to make good decisions.
maybe 18+ votes are guarenteed, but under 18 you have to pass some sort of test?
If you simply let users preview a random selection, say 5 seconds from somewhere random in the song, then it is much more unlikely to be worked around.
If you let users preview the beginning few seconds, then the people will play the actual song for that many seconds and then start their stuff. But if it is random, then they dont know what to pad and so they'll have to go away
i am 16 and i can damn well understand the consequences of my actions better then a lot of the adults i know. I am complaining, because the gov't has no right to take away my rights without my say. i am knowledgable enough to decide for myself what is right and wrong.
if minors can be charged as adults in court after they committ crimes, then they should be considered adults all the time. you cant have it both ways.
i understand you'll have to take my word for it, but i cant believe they let some of the idiots (adults) in the USA (where I live) vote and I cant. Im sorry, but there is no reason for that.
You can vote even if you have no idea about what the voting process is or what it does or even who you are voting for, if you are over 18. I understand all those things, better then a lot of adults most probably, and I cant vote.
oh my god. this is so offtopic but if you are sitting there reading the threads above with everyone bitching each other out and you then come along the scrotum dedication post it is amazingly funny! i wish I had mod points to mod that to funny
one of my friends in high school "accidentally" "stumbled" across a porn site at the beginning of this year in english class. he called the teacher over and asked her to "please get him out of this nasty stuff"
it was really really funny watching her try to get out of the popup jungle....porn all over the place and nothing she could do about it. she finally asked me how to reboot the iMac she was using and so I did it for her
the guy did it again about 5 minutes later. god that was a great day.
you cant necessarily say that in a few years due to broadban we will not have these problems! back in the day of the 300 baud modem people would look at 56k and say "wow...that'll solve all our problems!"
but now we have these darn things called inline images and it takes up the bandwidth of a 56k. the ads are going to get bigger as the pipe gets bigger b/c the general public will tolerate that. eventually we will have inline video ads. not too soon, I'd say, but eventually we will. and broadban will be just as overloaded as it is today.
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If you look at his "The Score" page from his site (not on the bar monkey page) you'll notice that he's been looking into getting a patent on something. I wonder if that's the reason there's no source or detailed info.
How about the scientologists? They love the courts, and I don't like them anyway...it'd be a win-win situation.
Heretic and Hexen were both based on the Doom engine. Also Strife, an RPG-type game made by Rogue Entertainment.
Also, Chex cereal made a game using the Doom engine which they gave away for free. Kinda a funny little thing.
Yeah, exactly - I either feel sorry for the guy, because he probably made an honest mistake (albeit a stupid one) and now is getting absolutely ripped apart over it....or I think the entire thing is funny as hell. I smell troll. That would definitely be the funniest thing I've seen in these parts in a LONG time.
I don't think I've met anyone stupid enough to know what he was doing and STILL do what old Bernie did. So its got to be either an honest mistake or a troll.
> Frankly, I wish Apple would concentrate on
> making user choice an option. I mean...No
> choice of colors.
We can thank Apple for any choices in colors we have now....it was beige (sp?) and black before the original iMac...
do you go to oral roberts university in tulsa, ok? b/c the rules of internet access you talk about sound a lot like the ones they have there. (one of my good friends goes there)
i dont know about you, but at my university (university of illinois) we are certainly allowed to look at porn. last time i checked universities were supposedly a place for freedom of expression....porn being one of those expressions. whatever.
now, it was on a TI92, but me and this hot girl next to me always would write notes on the thing and just pass it back and forth
:-)
qwerty keyboards are nice. and the teacher thought we were doing math homework.
you work at deere?
what dept? i am an IT intern at the harvester works.
send me an email bholt@uiuc.edu
he did it backwards. 155/15=10.33
oooh - I bet bush is shaking in his boots. A bunch of slashdot geeks are gonna vote against him. Ouch. He didn't get the slashdot vote the first time.
Now that the shit has broken loose in NYC, no one's gonna worry about this for a good long time.
Besides the fact that Microsoft owns all this IP. They should be able to do whatever the hell they want with it. Bundle a web browser - great! Now I don't have to find it on the web somewhere. Bundle an IM program. Great! Now I don't have to look for it.
I use a Mac. I use Linux on the PC platform. But Microsoft should still be able to do what they want with their property.
Used to be that you'd be able to use apple's cube, with its complete lack of fans and whatnot, but no more.
And to those who'll bitch about a Mac not running Wintel apps - Virtual PC does a pretty good job. I bet you could get these older games to run in Virtual PC.
Good thinking, moron. How many teachers would look at this, and say "well, my students thought I was boring. I'm going to lose my job, so we'll just watch a bunch of dumb movies, surf the web, discuss pop culture, or talk to our friends, instead of discussing the topic"
:-( )
I mean, honestly. How many students honestly enjoy all of history, english, or math, no matter how interesting the teacher is in those subjects. I'd be willing to bet, not many.
I loved history (and math, and science, incidentally), but honestly, (and she was still one of my favorite teachers, mainly because she was a wonderful person outside class) my history teacher was *boring*. In fact, I got so bored, I actually read the text for fun. In this way, I probably learned a lot more than I would have by actually paying attention, but most students would have (and did) slept.
The state of our schools isn't (in my experience) as bad as many think. I went to a school of about 150 students, and it was wonderful. We had internet classes that helped to make up for the lack of curriculum due to such a small school. My calculus teacher was honestly amazing. My computer teacher, while not a great *computer* teacher, was still one of the best teachers you'll find. And the history teacher I mentioned above was also excellent, in her own, boring, way. (One area that was a bit lacking was English.
America's schools are ok. Our test scores may fall behind other countries, but our schools teach our kids to think and analyze much better than those countries, where they actually teach mainly to the test. The call for standardized testing is going to pull America into the same trap - we can't let this happen.
We need to recruit and reward our best teachers. Teaching is one of our most important professions - so why do they get paid like shit? Please, when your local school board asks for a tax raise so they can pay our teachers - give it to them! Teachers are important! Why would a competent math or computer teacher teach in a high school - when he or she could go work in corporate america for 10x the cash? The few good ones that are left are there because they truely love it, and we're lucky to have 'em. The rest, well, they say "those who can't, teach." And that's sad...we should have nothing BUT the best for our youth.
And to those who think that new technology is ruining our youth...please. Math teachers have said that about everything from chalk to pencils. Technology doesn't hurt our kids....today's most advanced technology is greatly helped by technology. Integrals are commonly looked up in charts - a ruidmentary form of technology. Technology isn't going to hurt anything.
Please look at the history of education, apply a bit of common sense, and look for the good instead of only the bad before berating our schools. Its not as bad as many believe.
holt
hey now...watch yourself. heh...i had doom running on my laptop last night, and one of better girl-friends was like "wow! i used to play that *all the time!*"
i told her i had newfound respect. i had never actually met a girl who played doom. LOL
Pardoned felons are no longer felons, I think. This makes them re-eligible. When you are pardoned, isn't the crime struck from your record?
How true. But funny!
actually, does the RIAA get a portion of the money the indie-labels make in the form of the RIAA tax that we pay on blank CDs? (well blank audio-CDs, b/c i have noticed that in many stores the blanks which are labeled "audio CD" are a few dollars more expensive than the ones labeled "for computer use only" even though they are the same thing.)
I mean, if you buy a CD from an indie label, but they had to pay the RIAA tax on their blanks, then does that defeat the purpose? (other than better music, of course)
>> This I do not doubt. But I am surprised to see
:)
>> that you write lowercase 'i' in place of
>> uppercase 'I'. Surely you are mature enough
>> now to be an 'I' rather than an 'i'? ('i' is
>> for the 12-yr-olds who can't ICQ).
surely you realize that IIRC english is the only major language to capitolize "I" when used to refer to ones self. whether i follow standard english rules or not does nothing to determine whether i can make decisions better than someone who does. that has nothing to do with it.
>> Not all of us adults in the USA are idiots.
i didnt say that
i would agree with one of the others in this thread...if you pay taxes or are eligable for other gov't programs to take things away from you then you should be able to vote after demonstrating the knowledge nessessary to make good decisions.
maybe 18+ votes are guarenteed, but under 18 you have to pass some sort of test?
Ok
If you simply let users preview a random selection, say 5 seconds from somewhere random in the song, then it is much more unlikely to be worked around.
If you let users preview the beginning few seconds, then the people will play the actual song for that many seconds and then start their stuff. But if it is random, then they dont know what to pad and so they'll have to go away
bullshit
i am 16 and i can damn well understand the consequences of my actions better then a lot of the adults i know. I am complaining, because the gov't has no right to take away my rights without my say. i am knowledgable enough to decide for myself what is right and wrong.
if minors can be charged as adults in court after they committ crimes, then they should be considered adults all the time. you cant have it both ways.
i understand you'll have to take my word for it, but i cant believe they let some of the idiots (adults) in the USA (where I live) vote and I cant. Im sorry, but there is no reason for that.
You can vote even if you have no idea about what the voting process is or what it does or even who you are voting for, if you are over 18. I understand all those things, better then a lot of adults most probably, and I cant vote.
Someone please explain why.
oh my god. this is so offtopic but if you are sitting there reading the threads above with everyone bitching each other out and you then come along the scrotum dedication post it is amazingly funny! i wish I had mod points to mod that to funny
;-)
heh heh. maybe i am just really tired
one of my friends in high school "accidentally" "stumbled" across a porn site at the beginning of this year in english class. he called the teacher over and asked her to "please get him out of this nasty stuff"
it was really really funny watching her try to get out of the popup jungle....porn all over the place and nothing she could do about it. she finally asked me how to reboot the iMac she was using and so I did it for her
the guy did it again about 5 minutes later. god that was a great day.
you cant necessarily say that in a few years due to broadban we will not have these problems! back in the day of the 300 baud modem people would look at 56k and say "wow...that'll solve all our problems!"
but now we have these darn things called inline images and it takes up the bandwidth of a 56k. the ads are going to get bigger as the pipe gets bigger b/c the general public will tolerate that. eventually we will have inline video ads. not too soon, I'd say, but eventually we will. and broadban will be just as overloaded as it is today.
sorry!