So, $27 dollars for Vista from the OEM and ten times as much for it if you but it off the shelf? Even calculating based on the $100 US price tag of the el cheapo Home Basic upgrade, and assuming that OEM copies are priced somewhat below cost, that's some pretty steep markup on retail copies.
I would disagree on that as well. If he had painted himself as the flawless author/prophet/visionary, that would have been jumping the shark. As it is, he invented a decidedly unflattering version of himself - one that his main characters cursed and derided rather justifiably.
I have to disagree. It's not pissing and moaning from dumb grunts. It's pissing and moaning from smart grunts who recognize a dumb idea when they see it or are ordered to implement it.
In its current incarnation, LW is not an asset, nor will it ever be. It's a bad idea, and apparently, the NCO whose job it is to demo this steaming pile of crap is one of the few people in the Army who can move freely in it. Unfortunately, no one seems to like contradicting Generals, or even really saying 'No' to them, so bad ideas get polished on the way up the chain. Somewhere, someone got a really hare-brained James Bond/Starship Troopers idea and tried to implement it. Land Warrior is the result. It may look shiny in briefings, but it stinks to high heaven anywhere else.
My father is an ORSA. He has been testing equipment on behalf of the U.S. Army for quite a while now (on and off for the last 15 years). He was never specifically assigned to the Land Whoopie (his term) project, but his opinion of it is incredibly low. It's heavy, complicated, difficult to implement, and currently unnecessary. Worse, no one will kill it.
You have a point. I've always assumed that people (typically young) who rattle other people's windows with their bass aren't hearing-impaired, but are instead horribly inconsiderate.
As I said, I don't mind loud music all by itself. It's fun. When the bass is cranked so high I can hear windows and door panels vibrating in time to the music, however, I begin to perceive the driver as rude. My comment about launching RPGs at offending drivers was meant as hyperbole.
It might be more fitting to use infrasound or LRAD against those who are overly generous with their music. I'd be afraid of cooking the wrong person with a microwave gun.
While it would be nice to make hay of other people's rudeness, I think there is only one appropriate response to someone who's driving around with music so loud (or bass-boosted) that it rattles the door panels of their vehicles: a rocket-propelled grenade aimed squarely up the glass-pack.
From what I've heard, the religion is being carried on in relatively small enclaves in India, Pakistan, Iran, and elsewhere. Total world population is estimated be about 200,000 (as of 1996).
There's no such thing as religion? What an interesting assertion!
Let me go check with some Buddhists on that. Well, maybe not the Buddhists, since they're probably trying to be as detached from what we would refer to as their 'religion' as what we would refer to as 'everything else'. How about some Muslims? Or Sikhs? Zoroastrians! Maybe the Zoroastrians will be able to tell me this 'religion' thing is non-existent.
Sorry, they didn't seem to be willing to say 'there is no such thing as religion'. And I'm not even going to bother asking Protestants, Catholics, or Jews about it. And the Hindus are too busy not eating their cattle to talk to me about how their veneration of a million or more different gods is not, in fact, a religion.
But seriously, if you wanted to be precise, you should have asked, 'what value does the knowledge of something specious have?' Religions clearly do exist. You may question their value, but the human tendency to be religious is incontrovertible.
[noflame]Everything I said is to poke fun at the imprecision of the OP's argument, not to poke fun at the various faiths and religions I mentioned. No offense is meant to any adherent of any of these religions.[/noflame]
"Unlimited" and "More Unlimited". Microsoft is already doing it with Vista. They've said that Home Basic is Vista. However, Home Premium, Premium Basic, and Premium Premium (with a side of spam, eggs, and spam) are also all as Vista as you can get.
However, I agree with your basic thesis: Verizon is indeed being stupid and is certainly perpetrating a marketing blunder par excellence on this.
By 'girls', I mean the limiting reagent in human reproduction. As a class of compounds, 'girls' are extremely common but somewhat volatile, so creating bonds with them is sometimes difficult. They are attracted to other similarly elusive compounds. Examples of these attracting compounds include 'Time', 'emotional vulnerability', and 'financial stability'.
I was going to assume that his daughter is little and likes rabbits because they're cute and fuzzy, or that she's somewhat older and keeps rabbits because they're cute, fuzzy, and more manageable than other animals. But, sadly this is Slashdot, so images that contain girls but aren't pr0n are apparently incomprehensible.
No, it's not precisely professional, but he probably thought the statement was non-literal enough to be understood as pure hyperbole. Or he was just speaking off the cuff, which is a fairly stupid thing for a lawyer to do.
For example, if he had said "We're going to throw the book at him" or "We're going to bring the hammer down", Americans would immediately understand these as metaphors for "We're going to punish him severely", since book-throwing and hammer-thwacking are recognizable figures of speech, not literal forms of punishment.
"Next year: Increasing the entropy of the surroundings will constitute a violation of the Clean Air Act. Do your part to limit your entropy footprint."
Would this make SCO, Microsoft, and COBOL illegal, as they all increase the entropy of the universe?
Technically, there's a huge market for live theatre, and recording devices in theatres are considered harmful, but the business models for live performing arts companies are entirely different from the business model for shrink-wrapped crap^H^H^H^Hentertainment. You typically deal with much lower margins, a great many much smaller target markets, and much higher sunk costs - unless you're doing a touring show or something that's playing well in London/New York/Chicago/Las Vegas, which still has the sunk costs problem.
So, shrink-wrapped or live-performance-only, they would still have the same problem - a flawed business model.
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So, $27 dollars for Vista from the OEM and ten times as much for it if you but it off the shelf? Even calculating based on the $100 US price tag of the el cheapo Home Basic upgrade, and assuming that OEM copies are priced somewhat below cost, that's some pretty steep markup on retail copies.
Bah. d72s are for wimps. Real gamers roll d100s! Or d%. Or 2d10.
I would disagree on that as well. If he had painted himself as the flawless author/prophet/visionary, that would have been jumping the shark. As it is, he invented a decidedly unflattering version of himself - one that his main characters cursed and derided rather justifiably.
To follow in that vein:
e s)#Vol_III:_The_Waste_Lands
I do not aim with my eye;
He who aims with his eye has forgotten the face of his father.
I aim with my hand.
I do not shoot with my hand;
He who shoots with his hand has forgotten the face of his father.
I shoot with my mind.
I do not kill with my gun;
He who kills with his gun has forgotten the face of his father.
I kill with my heart.
Steven King, The Dark Tower Series
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Dark_Tower_(seri
I have to disagree. It's not pissing and moaning from dumb grunts. It's pissing and moaning from smart grunts who recognize a dumb idea when they see it or are ordered to implement it.
In its current incarnation, LW is not an asset, nor will it ever be. It's a bad idea, and apparently, the NCO whose job it is to demo this steaming pile of crap is one of the few people in the Army who can move freely in it. Unfortunately, no one seems to like contradicting Generals, or even really saying 'No' to them, so bad ideas get polished on the way up the chain. Somewhere, someone got a really hare-brained James Bond/Starship Troopers idea and tried to implement it. Land Warrior is the result. It may look shiny in briefings, but it stinks to high heaven anywhere else.
My father is an ORSA. He has been testing equipment on behalf of the U.S. Army for quite a while now (on and off for the last 15 years). He was never specifically assigned to the Land Whoopie (his term) project, but his opinion of it is incredibly low. It's heavy, complicated, difficult to implement, and currently unnecessary. Worse, no one will kill it.
We can always build more killbots.
Would that be
(a) ignore her,
(b) agree with everything she says,
or
(c) disagree with everything she says (because making up by making out is fun)?
Some of us are married. What rating does that get us? :)
You have a point. I've always assumed that people (typically young) who rattle other people's windows with their bass aren't hearing-impaired, but are instead horribly inconsiderate.
As I said, I don't mind loud music all by itself. It's fun. When the bass is cranked so high I can hear windows and door panels vibrating in time to the music, however, I begin to perceive the driver as rude. My comment about launching RPGs at offending drivers was meant as hyperbole.
It might be more fitting to use infrasound or LRAD against those who are overly generous with their music. I'd be afraid of cooking the wrong person with a microwave gun.
Geriatric? I'm not even a tricenarian!
I agree. Loud music is fun. Music that is so loud it is lending significant energy to other objects, however, is not fun.
While it would be nice to make hay of other people's rudeness, I think there is only one appropriate response to someone who's driving around with music so loud (or bass-boosted) that it rattles the door panels of their vehicles: a rocket-propelled grenade aimed squarely up the glass-pack.
You're new here, aren't you?
Why would we want to do that? We'd send our technology to the far reaches of known space and get only hicks and bumpkins in return.
From what I've heard, the religion is being carried on in relatively small enclaves in India, Pakistan, Iran, and elsewhere. Total world population is estimated be about 200,000 (as of 1996).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoroastrian#Demograph ics/
There's no such thing as religion? What an interesting assertion!
Let me go check with some Buddhists on that. Well, maybe not the Buddhists, since they're probably trying to be as detached from what we would refer to as their 'religion' as what we would refer to as 'everything else'. How about some Muslims? Or Sikhs? Zoroastrians! Maybe the Zoroastrians will be able to tell me this 'religion' thing is non-existent.
Sorry, they didn't seem to be willing to say 'there is no such thing as religion'. And I'm not even going to bother asking Protestants, Catholics, or Jews about it. And the Hindus are too busy not eating their cattle to talk to me about how their veneration of a million or more different gods is not, in fact, a religion.
But seriously, if you wanted to be precise, you should have asked, 'what value does the knowledge of something specious have?' Religions clearly do exist. You may question their value, but the human tendency to be religious is incontrovertible.
[noflame]Everything I said is to poke fun at the imprecision of the OP's argument, not to poke fun at the various faiths and religions I mentioned. No offense is meant to any adherent of any of these religions.[/noflame]
"Unlimited" and "More Unlimited". Microsoft is already doing it with Vista. They've said that Home Basic is Vista. However, Home Premium, Premium Basic, and Premium Premium (with a side of spam, eggs, and spam) are also all as Vista as you can get.
However, I agree with your basic thesis: Verizon is indeed being stupid and is certainly perpetrating a marketing blunder par excellence on this.
By 'girls', I mean the limiting reagent in human reproduction. As a class of compounds, 'girls' are extremely common but somewhat volatile, so creating bonds with them is sometimes difficult. They are attracted to other similarly elusive compounds. Examples of these attracting compounds include 'Time', 'emotional vulnerability', and 'financial stability'.
I was going to assume that his daughter is little and likes rabbits because they're cute and fuzzy, or that she's somewhat older and keeps rabbits because they're cute, fuzzy, and more manageable than other animals. But, sadly this is Slashdot, so images that contain girls but aren't pr0n are apparently incomprehensible.
No, it's not precisely professional, but he probably thought the statement was non-literal enough to be understood as pure hyperbole. Or he was just speaking off the cuff, which is a fairly stupid thing for a lawyer to do.
For example, if he had said "We're going to throw the book at him" or "We're going to bring the hammer down", Americans would immediately understand these as metaphors for "We're going to punish him severely", since book-throwing and hammer-thwacking are recognizable figures of speech, not literal forms of punishment.
"Next year: Increasing the entropy of the surroundings will constitute a violation of the Clean Air Act. Do your part to limit your entropy footprint."
Would this make SCO, Microsoft, and COBOL illegal, as they all increase the entropy of the universe?
Technically, there's a huge market for live theatre, and recording devices in theatres are considered harmful, but the business models for live performing arts companies are entirely different from the business model for shrink-wrapped crap^H^H^H^Hentertainment. You typically deal with much lower margins, a great many much smaller target markets, and much higher sunk costs - unless you're doing a touring show or something that's playing well in London/New York/Chicago/Las Vegas, which still has the sunk costs problem.
So, shrink-wrapped or live-performance-only, they would still have the same problem - a flawed business model.
Ok:
To get a smoking camcorder:
1) Pay a studio employee to go to the movies with a camcorder containing a Sony Battery
2) ???
3) Profit!
To misquote Shakespeare: Kill all the politicians.