I receive an annual salary. Based upon the hourly breakdown of that salary, I earn one quarter of my hourly rate for every hour (16 every night) I am on-call and on Saturdays. On Sundays, I earn something like a dollar an hour (all 24).
I am expected to respond in 10 minutes from a page to determine severity over the phone.
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I think the time it takes for stories to be posted on the main page is taking longer and longer to the detriment of slashdot as a whole. Then again, mefi could just be a better meta news site...
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Are the plastic.com readers scooping you guys left and right, or are your submission approval processes finally showing themselves to be a bit too strict and time consuming?
...go here: http://www.clockworkstorybook.com. These four guys have been posting monthly and now more frequently (daily) stories and installments for over two years now. They are working to have 12 books published by 2002. They know how to make this online publishing work. They've built a fan base, with whom they regularly interact, provide maps of their fictional setting, maintain an easy to use site, and write great stories. You should really give them a try.
You might want to look at the specs and product listings for home-built in-car MP3 players. Many of them use smaller motherboards and link to the parts used in construction.
It may not be perfect, but I think it could be helpful.
Shouldn't the consumer have the choice to view a film in any of the currently available formats? I prefer to watch movies in the theatre, and own them at home for repeat viewings. Isn't this law, and any similar laws here in the US, maintaining a sort of monopoly over the distribution of the movies?
If the original novel was good enough to sell MILLIONS of copies and inspire a movie and a television miniseries then why change key elements of the story?
Paul had his sons in the next book and not one of them was killed in the first.
The emporer's daughter was created solely for this television adaption.
There were no weirding modules in the television mini as there should have been, nor did Paul use the weirding voice to crash the ship that was taking he and his mother over the desert! Key to the development of the character's awareness of his abilities!
Duncan did not rescue Paul and his mother from the deep desert.
They never attacked the Harkonans until Paul was Moadib and they had the weirding modules.
He DID NOT marry the fabricated emporer's daughter in the book! Complete garbage!
Oh, and the guy playing Gernie sucked a dead donkey's balls dry. He was horrible!
I thoroughly hated this series. There was absolutely no need whatsoever to alter the story from the original in any way. They had a six hour canvas to treat it with respect and do it right. But, like all television projects based on books, they failed miserably.
Kiss, if you do not connect using the telco's equipment, then they are not entitled to regulate the connectivity. Given that, it would be impossible for them to regulate it effectively given alternate connectivity methods. Therefore, it is wrong, unjust and unfair for the telcos to essentially regulate nothing more than a protocol that may or may not run on their equipment.
Furthermore, 900 number and other telephone sex services, telephone mail order companies, phone chat lines or other telephone based services (virtually anything you order over the telephone) do not have to share a portion of their profits with the telcos for using the telephone. They simply have to pay their phone bills. ISPs should, and are, no different. They are providing a service that may or may not make use of the telco's infrastructure just like the florist that takes orders from land lines and cell phones.
The attitude you are inferring from this story is not the usual/. socialist ranting (I'm getting quite tired of it myself, watch me get moderated into oblivion now...); it is the expression of shock at having one type of business (ISPs) being treated unfairly simply because a keyboard is involved.
Cable modems, satellites (yeah, I know I spelled it wrong) and any new methods of connectivity not yet developed are not under the control of the telcos.
For those using voice over IP on telephone dial-ups, then perhaps the telco will have a legitimate claim. However, I do not make any use of the telco's infrastructure, and I would gladly take them to court for stealing fees from my ISP!
Just more people that don't understand making laws that they can't fully comprehend...
The movie is a bit dawdly in parts, but the story-telling really is astonishingly faithful to the comic-book genre: simple, improbable, fantastic.
Wrong.
Comics are a medium, just like film or television or a book. Within that medium there are different genres. In comics, you have the superhero (just the American version/bastardization of all the world's hero myths), drama, spooky/suspense/horror, kids' and humor.
Your review, except for this misstatement of yours, is exceptional. Thank you for taking the time to write a careful review without giving anything away.
As an English speaking American Internet user, I just don't give a shit about destroying another language. English is a bit of a mish mash of other languages, anyway. In America, we have the Susuki Amigo to drive around if we choose. A car assembled in America for a Japanese company with a Spanish name.
Even if the Internet ends up like that language that Edward James Almos speaks in Bladerunner, I just don't care. I'd like to see whatever happens, however, *evolve* that way naturally and not another piece of uninformed legislation aimed at computing...
Ignorant is a childish flame such as yours. I've read the posts, and I stand corrected. What purpose did your post serve other than a little ego-stroking?
The only thing you'd be giving them is your card number with expiration date. Furthermore, with your grinnin' mug there in the pic, they could claim that you were giving permission to have your (surprise!) credit card number publicized on a web page (a very creative way to steal them).
That, or you're dealing with some very stupid merchants (more than likely).
You see, with telephone or Internet or other non in-person transactions, they don't need much in the way of proof of ID. Visa, and other credit card companies will pay all theft claims. It's very expensive, and that's why the credit card rates are so ridiculously high.
They simply do not need your picture with the credit card. Hell, you don't even have to do that with PayPal.com!
Very questionable. However, I think it's their intelligence that is questionable and not their intent.
I have repeatedly suggested that eBay consider Linux and php for their auctions. They are currently running on AOL servers (ever get one ot those error pages?) on NT machines. They have to have scheduled weekly downtime to baby sit their defective OS...I mean reboot the NT boxes, and they are plagued by system failures and chronic downtime. Since they are so dependent upon M$, don't you think a threat of delayed or withheld support would prompt them to commit the actions they have?
Why have you not elected to sue eBay or verifiable IDs on eBay, or in newspapers around the country, that sell your albums and merchandise "after-market"? Aren't they "stealing" from you by not paying royalties to you for the secondary sale? You'll notice that Napster and its users charge no fees like eBay, newspapers and those who sell your products in meatspace. What's the difference? There may not be a keyboard-analogy for the newspaper, but there is for eBay...
On a digital side-note, I don't see you pursuing Usenet service providers. Do they not provide you with enough publicity?
Again, I'm not speaking to the monopoly issue. Example, if you purchase something with a credit card, and the company from which you are purchasing said item charges a service fee simply because it's a credit card, that's illegal. Why is requiring the purchase of their online service when you buy online required, and when you shop in person, it isn't? It's the required purchase part that bothers me.
I understand the whole monopoly issue. I wasn't really talking about that, as much as I was alluding to the question of bundling. Interesting analogy with cell phones. I'll have to think on that one. I can get a phone "free" if I purchase a service contract with a carrier...you may have something there.
Thanks. I would tend to agree with you if it weren't for the fact that we are able to purchase these machines from Circuit City without the requirement of their online service. With that forced purchase, isn't that what got M$ bit in the ass for the "free" PCs that eventually ended up being free?
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Why don't these units ever have a belt clip? Can you imagine the first Walkman having been released with no belt clip? It's stupid.
Now, I can't act but, neither can you. So...why's your website so fucking ugly?
I receive an annual salary. Based upon the hourly breakdown of that salary, I earn one quarter of my hourly rate for every hour (16 every night) I am on-call and on Saturdays. On Sundays, I earn something like a dollar an hour (all 24).
I am expected to respond in 10 minutes from a page to determine severity over the phone.
Metafilter 3 / Slashdot 0
I think the time it takes for stories to be posted on the main page is taking longer and longer to the detriment of slashdot as a whole. Then again, mefi could just be a better meta news site...
Are the plastic.com readers scooping you guys left and right, or are your submission approval processes finally showing themselves to be a bit too strict and time consuming?
...I read on Metafilter or Plastic.com first. Slashdot doesn't suck, it's just slacking.
...go here: http://www.clockworkstorybook.com. These four guys have been posting monthly and now more frequently (daily) stories and installments for over two years now. They are working to have 12 books published by 2002. They know how to make this online publishing work. They've built a fan base, with whom they regularly interact, provide maps of their fictional setting, maintain an easy to use site, and write great stories. You should really give them a try.
It may not be perfect, but I think it could be helpful.
Shouldn't the consumer have the choice to view a film in any of the currently available formats? I prefer to watch movies in the theatre, and own them at home for repeat viewings. Isn't this law, and any similar laws here in the US, maintaining a sort of monopoly over the distribution of the movies?
Well, I stand corrected, then.
Now, in light of the even-handed, mature and tactful manner in which you handled replying to my post...GOMFB!
Get Off My Fucking Back.
If the original novel was good enough to sell MILLIONS of copies and inspire a movie and a television miniseries then why change key elements of the story?
Paul had his sons in the next book and not one of them was killed in the first.
The emporer's daughter was created solely for this television adaption.
There were no weirding modules in the television mini as there should have been, nor did Paul use the weirding voice to crash the ship that was taking he and his mother over the desert! Key to the development of the character's awareness of his abilities!
Duncan did not rescue Paul and his mother from the deep desert.
They never attacked the Harkonans until Paul was Moadib and they had the weirding modules.
He DID NOT marry the fabricated emporer's daughter in the book! Complete garbage!
Oh, and the guy playing Gernie sucked a dead donkey's balls dry. He was horrible!
I thoroughly hated this series. There was absolutely no need whatsoever to alter the story from the original in any way. They had a six hour canvas to treat it with respect and do it right. But, like all television projects based on books, they failed miserably.
Kiss, if you do not connect using the telco's equipment, then they are not entitled to regulate the connectivity. Given that, it would be impossible for them to regulate it effectively given alternate connectivity methods. Therefore, it is wrong, unjust and unfair for the telcos to essentially regulate nothing more than a protocol that may or may not run on their equipment.
/. socialist ranting (I'm getting quite tired of it myself, watch me get moderated into oblivion now...); it is the expression of shock at having one type of business (ISPs) being treated unfairly simply because a keyboard is involved.
Furthermore, 900 number and other telephone sex services, telephone mail order companies, phone chat lines or other telephone based services (virtually anything you order over the telephone) do not have to share a portion of their profits with the telcos for using the telephone. They simply have to pay their phone bills. ISPs should, and are, no different. They are providing a service that may or may not make use of the telco's infrastructure just like the florist that takes orders from land lines and cell phones.
The attitude you are inferring from this story is not the usual
Cable modems, satellites (yeah, I know I spelled it wrong) and any new methods of connectivity not yet developed are not under the control of the telcos.
For those using voice over IP on telephone dial-ups, then perhaps the telco will have a legitimate claim. However, I do not make any use of the telco's infrastructure, and I would gladly take them to court for stealing fees from my ISP!
Just more people that don't understand making laws that they can't fully comprehend...
The movie is a bit dawdly in parts, but the story-telling really is astonishingly faithful to the comic-book genre: simple, improbable, fantastic.
Wrong.
Comics are a medium, just like film or television or a book. Within that medium there are different genres. In comics, you have the superhero (just the American version/bastardization of all the world's hero myths), drama, spooky/suspense/horror, kids' and humor.
Your review, except for this misstatement of yours, is exceptional. Thank you for taking the time to write a careful review without giving anything away.
As an English speaking American Internet user, I just don't give a shit about destroying another language. English is a bit of a mish mash of other languages, anyway. In America, we have the Susuki Amigo to drive around if we choose. A car assembled in America for a Japanese company with a Spanish name.
Even if the Internet ends up like that language that Edward James Almos speaks in Bladerunner, I just don't care. I'd like to see whatever happens, however, *evolve* that way naturally and not another piece of uninformed legislation aimed at computing...
I sincerely doubt the possibility of a sequal.
Ignorant is a childish flame such as yours. I've read the posts, and I stand corrected. What purpose did your post serve other than a little ego-stroking?
The only thing you'd be giving them is your card number with expiration date. Furthermore, with your grinnin' mug there in the pic, they could claim that you were giving permission to have your (surprise!) credit card number publicized on a web page (a very creative way to steal them).
That, or you're dealing with some very stupid merchants (more than likely).
You see, with telephone or Internet or other non in-person transactions, they don't need much in the way of proof of ID. Visa, and other credit card companies will pay all theft claims. It's very expensive, and that's why the credit card rates are so ridiculously high.
They simply do not need your picture with the credit card. Hell, you don't even have to do that with PayPal.com!
Very questionable. However, I think it's their intelligence that is questionable and not their intent.
I also sent a note to tips@news.com to see what happens with that as well...
I have repeatedly suggested that eBay consider Linux and php for their auctions. They are currently running on AOL servers (ever get one ot those error pages?) on NT machines.
They have to have scheduled weekly downtime to baby sit their defective OS...I mean reboot the NT boxes, and they are plagued by system failures and chronic downtime.
Since they are so dependent upon M$, don't you think a threat of delayed or withheld support would prompt them to commit the actions they have?
Why have you not elected to sue eBay or verifiable IDs on eBay, or in newspapers around the country, that sell your albums and merchandise "after-market"? Aren't they "stealing" from you by not paying royalties to you for the secondary sale? You'll notice that Napster and its users charge no fees like eBay, newspapers and those who sell your products in meatspace. What's the difference? There may not be a keyboard-analogy for the newspaper, but there is for eBay...
On a digital side-note, I don't see you pursuing Usenet service providers. Do they not provide you with enough publicity?
Thank you, I needed that clarification.
Again, I'm not speaking to the monopoly issue.
Example, if you purchase something with a credit card, and the company from which you are purchasing said item charges a service fee simply because it's a credit card, that's illegal. Why is requiring the purchase of their online service when you buy online required, and when you shop in person, it isn't?
It's the required purchase part that bothers me.
I understand the whole monopoly issue. I wasn't really talking about that, as much as I was alluding to the question of bundling.
Interesting analogy with cell phones. I'll have to think on that one. I can get a phone "free" if I purchase a service contract with a carrier...you may have something there.
Thanks. I would tend to agree with you if it weren't for the fact that we are able to purchase these machines from Circuit City without the requirement of their online service.
With that forced purchase, isn't that what got M$ bit in the ass for the "free" PCs that eventually ended up being free?