I take it upon myself to answer your queries.
(1)-(10) What are you smokin, glossary icon indeed.
11. Are you, or is a person you are closely acquainted with, a witch?
She prefers wiccan, you insensitive clod.
12. What is the airspeed of an unladen swallow?
Faith and Reason, much discussed as of late. For anyone interested in more information about how scientist and theologian handle the seemingly incompatabilities between the two, Slate provides this fascinating set of discussions @ http://meaningoflife.tv/ Long conversations with scientist, theologians and philosphizers. I reccommend you watch the entire intervies not the snippetts.
The conversations are long and dry, but the content is golden.
On the subject of how old the Universe is, I default to the only known answer Old, Older than any of us.
I don't get these guys. 10yrs to develop a brand on television and they change the name.
20 years of raping profits from CDs. Now any person on the planet can get a CDplayer for 10bucks, a CD/MP3 player for 20.
They want to change the format. WTF, Ahem
Memo to Warner Music Division.
We want the physical media.
We will pay a REASONABLE price for it.
We do not want to be forced to upgrade all of our equipment.
We have no desire to re buy all of our music all over again.
We do not want Restriction on the use of OUR media other than copy resale.
We want access to our music and choice of purchase Web/CD/Satelite
To acommplish all of these, you can either:
Release your DRM-less music on the web itunes/napster/WBStore whatever, Reduce the price of CDs to less than $10 and Be the alternative to the Sony Empire. Reaping profits and customers lowering R&D/liscensing costs across the board.
or
Follow through with this profit killing, customer betraying, Stock tanking, disastrous, nefarious, expensive plan, Risking Being made irrelevant in the music industry.
Never let it be said that I didn't try to help out the big guys.
As a great visionary once said, the Internet is not a truck, it's a collection of pipes. So darnit, for my surfing I want to see some pipes, how they connect, and where they lead to, and what they contain.
How could you misquote the great Internet Sage, Ted Stevens, Chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, ForShame.
No, I'm not finished. I want people to understand my position, I'm not going to take a lot of time.
They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the internet. And again, the internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a truck.
It's a series of tubes.
And if you don't understand those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and its going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.
Thank (insert Diety here) he's there to watch over those tubes for us. One of the finest examples of Representative Government I've ever seen.
Out of all the articles that get linked here from the escapist, I never see the good ones.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/issue/55/20 Titled:The Short, Happy Life of Infocom
by Lara Crigger
News for nerds indeed. Actually most of the articles in this issue are better, 20Million Sims Online Failure, CyberSex
Attack of the Show, Sometimes good, sometimes painful. The Feed, now very painful. I miss Sarah, but not her husband
XPlay, Good Reviews, and subtle comedy that you have to listen carefully for.
Icons, Reruns that are gaming History related, New ones not so much.
Everything Else, Change the channel.
The Demographic they are trying to zero in on, is not one I would like to be associated with. I mean, I like hot chicks as much as the next guy, but damn, there has to be Content OR Nudity. Content would be preferred we already have Nudity channels. What we don't have are Technical Content. Hardware, Software, Internet, and Geek Culture on tv.
If maybe I hadn't seen every StarTrek and NextGeneration 10 years ago, I might include them as high points.
What happens to all the toonsex porn sites. You know, with the Lesbian scenes with Princess Jasmin and Ariel, or Scooby doing Shaggy, or..... or so I've heard such things exist, not that I actually have seen any of that, uh... smut.... Yeah thats better.
As for #3, I think that may also have been in part thanks to sites like savewash.com (no link, since it's been replaced by domain squatters) that leaked info from sneak peeks and previews. Gods know, I wish I'd seen the site before the movie. (Rant about that part of the movie omitted.)
I thought it showed real balls. Good likable character eats it at the triumphant moment, Impressed me.
Wouldn't have had the same impact if it had been the Doc. (my wife was wishing him dead the whole movie)
If the Republicans had an ounce of integrity they'd impeach Bush and Cheney themeselves.
Whoa there trigger. Have you seen the line of succession.
The Vice President Richard (The Dick) Cheney
Speaker of the House John Dennis Hastert
President pro tempore of the Senate Ted (Tubes) Stevens
Secretary of State Condoleezza (CondySenda) Rice
Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson
Secretary of Defense Donald H. (Rummy) Rumsfeld
Attorney General Alberto (Geneva Schmeneva)Gonzales
Secretary of Homeland Security Michael (Crisis Management)Chertoff
Can you impeach the entire line? Have to prosecute and have them resign before you get to W. Not likely with a democratic congress, forget about it with the Republicans.
It has zero to do with consoles. Consoles do not make any significant money for chip makers. Consoles make money for game publishers.
Traditionally Consoles make no money for Console Makers. (Nintendo Excluded)
However the chips inside cost money, Ati was happy to have a GPU in the GameCube, and They (AMD & Ati) are happy to be in the Wii and the 360. I have no numbers but I'd bet my next console (Wii) they didn't sell below cost.
I'm sorry, remind me how the web portal that's held the number one spot in traffic rankings for years could ever be considered irrelevant?
hmmm, you didn't see this today?
Google,The internet search engine said it had net income of $721m, or $2.33 per diluted share, up from $343m a year earlier. Wall Street had expected earnings of $1.94 per share. Earlier this week Yahoo had announced lower than expected earnings."
Maybe not totally irrelavant yet, the funky name is the only thing saving it. If you wanted to survive the dotcom bubble you had to have an assinine name that means nothing and describes nothing.
I have nothing constructive to add to this discussion, so I'd just like you all to know that I am going to buy a Nintendo Wii instead of a PlayStation 3.
Not if I get it off the shelf first.
Somehow I don't think Nintendo is going to have the fullfillment problems of MS and Sony. I also get the feeling that I will be able to choose only between the Wii and 360 for a little while anyway.
I fail to see how this even begins to fit the "News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters" moniker.
Well you see, there are people in and around government who think torture is justified. It matters to me that not only are there still real americans in and around government but they are standing up and saying what they believe.
Maybe 'blog' is the word that is bothering you.
Here we have a contractor who did something the employer didn't like. Employer fires contractor. End of story.
Something her employer's employer (Uncle Sam) did not like. End of story is, If you stand up and speak your mind, 'we' will terminate your livelyhood, even if what you say is the truth (especially if it is the truth).
I guess all this is irrelevant to you, and you'd like another Ipod-killer/DS-killer/History of Luigi's Mustache story.
Slashdot Mirror
Great idea Steve,
No way Bill will copy this one.
Fine teaching text, so far.
She prefers wiccan, you insensitive clod. 12. What is the airspeed of an unladen swallow?
African or European?
Also Check out Bill Moyers show Faith and Reason on your local PBS station or @ http://www.pbs.org/moyers/watch.html
The conversations are long and dry, but the content is golden. On the subject of how old the Universe is, I default to the only known answer Old, Older than any of us.
Thanks for the info.
Kevin Pereira was his co-host and still hosts the show.
http://www.g4tv.com/attackoftheshow/features/53663 /AOTS_hosts_Kevin_Pereira_and_Olivia_Munn.html
You can still catch Kevin Rose on the web on a podcast called Systm.
http://www.revision3.com/systm
20 years of raping profits from CDs. Now any person on the planet can get a CDplayer for 10bucks, a CD/MP3 player for 20.
They want to change the format. WTF, Ahem
Memo to Warner Music Division.
We want the physical media.
We will pay a REASONABLE price for it.
We do not want to be forced to upgrade all of our equipment.
We have no desire to re buy all of our music all over again.
We do not want Restriction on the use of OUR media other than copy resale.
We want access to our music and choice of purchase Web/CD/Satelite
To acommplish all of these, you can either:
Release your DRM-less music on the web itunes/napster/WBStore whatever, Reduce the price of CDs to less than $10 and Be the alternative to the Sony Empire. Reaping profits and customers lowering R&D/liscensing costs across the board.
or
Follow through with this profit killing, customer betraying, Stock tanking, disastrous, nefarious, expensive plan, Risking Being made irrelevant in the music industry.
Never let it be said that I didn't try to help out the big guys.
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&safe=of f&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=%22autom atic+topic+analysis%22&spell=1
I had this visual while reading your comment.
Darth Ballmer: I sense much lethargy and apathy, the force is strong with our customer base.
They left Tv and moved to the web. All for the better.
Thank You.
How could you misquote the great Internet Sage, Ted Stevens, Chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, ForShame.
No, I'm not finished. I want people to understand my position, I'm not going to take a lot of time.
They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the internet. And again, the internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a truck.
It's a series of tubes.
And if you don't understand those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and its going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.
Thank (insert Diety here) he's there to watch over those tubes for us. One of the finest examples of Representative Government I've ever seen.
Out of all the articles that get linked here from the escapist, I never see the good ones. http://www.escapistmagazine.com/issue/55/20 Titled :The Short, Happy Life of Infocom
by Lara Crigger
News for nerds indeed. Actually most of the articles in this issue are better, 20Million Sims Online Failure, CyberSex
Thanks for the text editions http://www.escapistmagazine.com/print/55/18 Sims
XPlay, Good Reviews, and subtle comedy that you have to listen carefully for.
Icons, Reruns that are gaming History related, New ones not so much.
Everything Else, Change the channel.
The Demographic they are trying to zero in on, is not one I would like to be associated with. I mean, I like hot chicks as much as the next guy, but damn, there has to be Content OR Nudity. Content would be preferred we already have Nudity channels. What we don't have are Technical Content. Hardware, Software, Internet, and Geek Culture on tv.
If maybe I hadn't seen every StarTrek and NextGeneration 10 years ago, I might include them as high points.
What happens to all the toonsex porn sites. You know, with the Lesbian scenes with Princess Jasmin and Ariel, or Scooby doing Shaggy, or ..... or so I've heard such things exist, not that I actually have seen any of that, uh ... smut.... Yeah thats better.
I thought it showed real balls. Good likable character eats it at the triumphant moment, Impressed me. Wouldn't have had the same impact if it had been the Doc. (my wife was wishing him dead the whole movie)
To the grandparent post Serenity was the name.
Whoa there trigger. Have you seen the line of succession.
The Vice President Richard (The Dick) Cheney
Speaker of the House John Dennis Hastert
President pro tempore of the Senate Ted (Tubes) Stevens
Secretary of State Condoleezza (CondySenda) Rice
Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson
Secretary of Defense Donald H. (Rummy) Rumsfeld
Attorney General Alberto (Geneva Schmeneva)Gonzales
Secretary of Homeland Security Michael (Crisis Management)Chertoff
Can you impeach the entire line? Have to prosecute and have them resign before you get to W. Not likely with a democratic congress, forget about it with the Republicans.
Aim Lower.
Traditionally Consoles make no money for Console Makers. (Nintendo Excluded)
However the chips inside cost money, Ati was happy to have a GPU in the GameCube, and They (AMD & Ati) are happy to be in the Wii and the 360. I have no numbers but I'd bet my next console (Wii) they didn't sell below cost.
A.) Xbox, Nintendo
Analysis.....Good move.
I'm immune, All AMD and Nvidia for years now. Haven't seen a thing to change my attitude to date.
hmmm, you didn't see this today?
Google,The internet search engine said it had net income of $721m, or $2.33 per diluted share, up from $343m a year earlier. Wall Street had expected earnings of $1.94 per share. Earlier this week Yahoo had announced lower than expected earnings."
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/21/045525 8&from=rss
Maybe not totally irrelavant yet, the funky name is the only thing saving it. If you wanted to survive the dotcom bubble you had to have an assinine name that means nothing and describes nothing.
Not if I get it off the shelf first.
Somehow I don't think Nintendo is going to have the fullfillment problems of MS and Sony. I also get the feeling that I will be able to choose only between the Wii and 360 for a little while anyway.
Well you see, there are people in and around government who think torture is justified. It matters to me that not only are there still real americans in and around government but they are standing up and saying what they believe.
Maybe 'blog' is the word that is bothering you.
Here we have a contractor who did something the employer didn't like. Employer fires contractor. End of story.
Something her employer's employer (Uncle Sam) did not like. End of story is, If you stand up and speak your mind, 'we' will terminate your livelyhood, even if what you say is the truth (especially if it is the truth).
I guess all this is irrelevant to you, and you'd like another Ipod-killer/DS-killer/History of Luigi's Mustache story.
http://www.dosgamesonline.com/index/game/StarTrek/ 496
I highly recomend an update.
http://wcuniverse.sourceforge.net/vegatrek/index.h tml