Ethanol powered drivers are already behind the wheel of many American vehicles. This seems more of a problem than a solution. Though the Fred Flintstone Engine would seem to work well, especially with enough ehtanol in your system that you don't notice that you just lost all the skin on your feet at the last red light.
But, for those who've been pirating all allong? Oh, never had support? What's to lose? NOTHING!
Guess, with support being dropped so soon, there's no point in going legal if you're not already. If you've made it this long, just keep on truckin'.
At least you didn't mod me down. Wait, I wouldn't have cared.
It was a joke. It was intended to be funny. Let me lay it out this way, maybe you'll get it then:
1) Buy $80k car for the batteries it contains
2) ???
3) Profit!
If the humor still eludes you, perhaps you should go read Digg.
I'd buy one just because it uses 7000 laptop batteries. That's just under $12/battery, i can ebay them for AT LEAST $15 each, that's AT LEAST a $21000 profit on my $80000 investment in a VERY short term. And THAT'S being conservative.
Now... who wants to loan me $80k plus taxes and other applicable fees?
Go apply for a loan after having your (perfect credit, no criminal record) identity stolen.
When you're denied the loan and picked up by the cops in the same day, tell me that identity wasn't stolen and replaced with a different one.
Oh, they still have an identity. Just not the one they had when they went to sleep.
You see, I have an identity, as far as financial institutions are concerned, which can walk in, get a loan with a good rate, and walk out.
Someone steals my identity, walks in, gets a good rate on a loan, never repays it...
I wake up, I no longer have that identity. I was stolen.
Pull your head out of your ass.
the ST was an amazing machine for its time, as well. I miss mine... used to blow my 486 out of the water and came out years beofre it. just goes to show, the time invested in doing it right can make it last that much longer in the real world...
which is just what they DON'T want. If you could still be using that 386 you bought in the late 80s and be able to do everything you use your current computer for, would you have bought your current computer?
Would they have made money from that? No.
Look at Vista - everyone wants the newest thing when it comes out, sometimes they can't justify that hardware upgrade, though they really want it. Soon as Vista comes out and NEEDS that hardware upgrade (oh and you'll HAVE to be running Vista, don't ask me why, that's just what they keep telling me) now it's justified. They get your money -- BECAUSE the software sucks.
That's the mentality in the US; other countries, YMMV.
Actually, the government is changing rapidly. They're getting quicker at regulating emerging (or even nonexistant) technologies BEFORE they hit the market! This is already out there, so, OF COURSE they're taking their time.
Logic's there. People are used to getting those for free, they have been allowed to give them away for free and people know it. Taking them out of the OS now would be tough to explain unless some governent somewhere made them do it. Then it's just a matter of saying "Well, they made us do it there, so we're gonna do it here too os we don't get sued again." Furthermore, people are NOT used to integrated AV, the new graphics engine (can't think of the name of it because I honestly never cared) or WinFS. These have NEVER been freely distributed with the OS. Different logic. And yes, it's there.
Anyone ever stop to think, maybe they WANTED to get sued in several countries over antitrust issues? Maybe they purposely included many products in the OS which, at the time, they could not have sold, but wanted to make people aware of; and they did this to the extent that governments stepped in and put an end to it. Now there are quite a few people who want all this, once bundled, software and MS can say "We're not allowed to bundle it any more but you can still have it for $9.95USD/mo. Sorry, your country's govenrment says it has to be this way, we can't even offer it for free anymore. Our hands are tied." I mean, right now it's what, just IE and WMP that these countries are making a big fuss about, right? Next will be notepad, paint, what else? And, of course, every single application MS comes up with that should be part of the OS. Ever. The AV should be integrated (or at least bundled) but this is thier excuse to charge for it. I'm sure you'll be able to BUY the graphics engine (most likely subscribe to it for a few bucks a month) and probably the new filesystem (hrmm, think of the possibilities there!) shortly after the Vista launch. The thought of that 'rental' filesystem scares me... "Excuse me, Symantec, it seems your last payment for WinFS did not process. Your WinFS partitions will be inaccessable until you make another payment. Sorry, our payment processing systems are down at the moment and there is no ETA on repairing them." then a month later "Since it has taken so long for us to recieve a payment from you, your ability to subscribe to the WinFS filesystem has been revoked." Well then, every WinFS partitioned disk they have just became useless, no? Think. MS would do this. ESPECIALLY to a competitor.
Obviously, or Wendy's, because BK doesn't sell a Bacon Jr. Cheeseburger, or even a Jr. Cheeseburger. Wendy's does. I should know, I work at one and eat at the other.
This is in DIRECT response to the "MacIntel" boxen being released. Think about it, people will buy a MacIntel, not be able to play the WMV home movies thier brother/son/daughter/sister/firend/whoever put together in Windows Movie Maker and, wow hey look, I can put windows on this thing too? Ok, that's what I'll do and BOOM, you know Windows will f*ck up OS-X86.
I, personally, don't give a flying frig who submitted the story. I mean, I'm only a front page reader and have bad karms (BTW, please mod me up, I'm begging, I need the karma *wink wink*) so i'm sure the/. community is gonna take anything I say with a grain of salt but, really, if there's a story posted that catches my interest I gould give a large rodent's behind less who posted it.
Actually, another point I'd like to make right now. Karma; WTF does it take to get good karma here anyway? Of the three posts of mine which have actually been moderated, 2 were modded up (1 as +1, insightful and the other +1 with no reason given), 1 was modded down (-1, troll), leaving me an overall score of +1, higher than the 0 (neutral) I started with, yet I have lower karma. Makes no sense; bad karma should be any score LOWER than 0 if 0 is "neutral". (and I implore you all, after reading this post in its entirity, to take a moment to read through everything I've posted, including this there are only 9 posts to peruse, and if you can, moderate them as yo usee fit -- and I know, that's like asking for more -1, troll mods, I'll face that if that's all I get) But, getting back on topic and to the point I was trying to make, now that I've gotten my quasi-trollish rant out of the way, once your karma is marked as "Bad", even if it's because you were modded "-1, troll" for something that was MEANT to be funny (and your insightful rebuttal was ignored by those with modpoints), well, even your most well thought out, relevant, insightful and informative comments fall through the cracks. This is how it should be, perhaps, for users with scores
That said, yes, it is obvious to me why the post in question was modded "troll". I don't need to be told that, you don't need to point it out, I see why, I get it, I would likely have modded it that way as well, nobody needs to explain it in this case, whatever. I certainly should have put more thought and effort into that post. Then again, how many users with otherwise good karms have done similar things and been MODDED UP FOR IT? Because it was a first post and, well, here at/., sometimes we reward people for being jackasses just to get FP on a new story; I've seen it, and so have all of you so I see no need to find an example to back that up -- but I will if one is requested.
Ok, now that I've gone slightly off-topic, let me summarize. Who gives a flying frig who posted the story, if it's a good story, it's a good story, I'm sure many readers here are in sales and understand "if you through enough of them at the wall..." so get over yourself and quit posting this and that about the poster and keep your comments relating to the story; that's not so hard to do. And someone please tell me WTF is up with karma. Thank you.
And since I can't think of any other way these things will be mentioned in this thread, I'll take a further risk of being modded down for this post and go ahead and run through some of the more popular/. jokes below.
In soviet russia, karma whores you!
1. Submit hundreds of stories to/. every day and finally get one posted
2. Watch as the only comments made about it relate to you and not the actual story
3....
4. Profit!
Yes, but does the OP run linux? (ok, that one's a stretch, I admit it)
Hope the server this story if posted on doesn't get/.ed
Ok, no more, I've gone too far. Whatever. Anyway, if you can't find anything insightful, informative, or at least funny to mod this up based on, go ahead and burn some mod points for the sections of this post which are off-topic; but please, give others a chance to read it and mod it up first.
I know someone who died playing golf. Are you telling me it's the same thing?
Day before Christmas, 1996. My grandfather. Heart attack during his backswing. No, though. It's different, you'd almost HAVE to be addicted to crack to be addicted to golf as well.
Said by some f'k'n' AC:
Somehow I think that the mortality rate from coke use is slightly higher.
Aside, and bringing it back on topic, the mortality rate is not what's under discussion here. Addictiveness is. Let me make it clear that there are MANY addictive things with an almost ZERO mortality rate (caffiene, anyone? marijuana, no proven deaths except, maybe, from stupid shit done while high. sex? Ok, maybe sex has a mortality rate, but again, lower than coke. Compulsive liars are addicts as well. The lie itself cannot be fatal. The reaction of the person hearing it can be.) Just because it has little or no mortality rate doesn't mean it's not addictive. If you start it and can't stop it, it's addictive.
From dictionary.com:
addictive
adj.
1. Causing or tending to cause addiction
2. Characterized by or susceptible to addiction
Step into the light and allow us the crown you with this fine dunce cap.
An someone PLEASE mod this and grandparent up (look, I've resorted to begging). PLEASE!
Do you really think that argument holds water? Would you consider the 12,000 murders each year in the United States widespread? If that number isn't high enough, what about the 90,000 rapes? Still not high enough, what about 1.1 million car thefts? Suddenly the numbers are looking pretty widespread and yet I don't think anyone would argue there's a problem with laws against murder, rape or car theft. Want to get even higher? How about the 2.1 million burglaries and 2.2 million assaults?
I believe OP was refering to widespread as meaning it's being done the the vast majority of the population, average people, not hardened criminals.
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Ethanol powered drivers are already behind the wheel of many American vehicles. This seems more of a problem than a solution. Though the Fred Flintstone Engine would seem to work well, especially with enough ehtanol in your system that you don't notice that you just lost all the skin on your feet at the last red light.
But, for those who've been pirating all allong? Oh, never had support? What's to lose? NOTHING! Guess, with support being dropped so soon, there's no point in going legal if you're not already. If you've made it this long, just keep on truckin'.
Of course you have, it's /.
At least you didn't mod me down. Wait, I wouldn't have cared. It was a joke. It was intended to be funny. Let me lay it out this way, maybe you'll get it then: 1) Buy $80k car for the batteries it contains 2) ??? 3) Profit! If the humor still eludes you, perhaps you should go read Digg.
I'd buy one just because it uses 7000 laptop batteries. That's just under $12/battery, i can ebay them for AT LEAST $15 each, that's AT LEAST a $21000 profit on my $80000 investment in a VERY short term. And THAT'S being conservative. Now... who wants to loan me $80k plus taxes and other applicable fees?
JFKFC? nice.
Go apply for a loan after having your (perfect credit, no criminal record) identity stolen. When you're denied the loan and picked up by the cops in the same day, tell me that identity wasn't stolen and replaced with a different one.
does it run Mac OSX?
In Soviet Google, audience comes to broadcast.
Oh, they still have an identity. Just not the one they had when they went to sleep. You see, I have an identity, as far as financial institutions are concerned, which can walk in, get a loan with a good rate, and walk out. Someone steals my identity, walks in, gets a good rate on a loan, never repays it... I wake up, I no longer have that identity. I was stolen. Pull your head out of your ass.
Until they let their friend borrow their phone while they go around the town...
the ST was an amazing machine for its time, as well. I miss mine... used to blow my 486 out of the water and came out years beofre it. just goes to show, the time invested in doing it right can make it last that much longer in the real world... which is just what they DON'T want. If you could still be using that 386 you bought in the late 80s and be able to do everything you use your current computer for, would you have bought your current computer? Would they have made money from that? No. Look at Vista - everyone wants the newest thing when it comes out, sometimes they can't justify that hardware upgrade, though they really want it. Soon as Vista comes out and NEEDS that hardware upgrade (oh and you'll HAVE to be running Vista, don't ask me why, that's just what they keep telling me) now it's justified. They get your money -- BECAUSE the software sucks. That's the mentality in the US; other countries, YMMV.
Actually, the government is changing rapidly. They're getting quicker at regulating emerging (or even nonexistant) technologies BEFORE they hit the market! This is already out there, so, OF COURSE they're taking their time.
Amen!
...
err... I mean... nevermind...
oh, to hell with it...
1) Sue 12 year olds
2) Campaign to convince people they have no rights
3)
4) Profit!
3 I eat pie
.
1 Please...
4 Blueberry pie...
1 It
5 Is my favorite.
9 Now, this is correct. You're a moron.
Early April Fools?
Logic's there. People are used to getting those for free, they have been allowed to give them away for free and people know it. Taking them out of the OS now would be tough to explain unless some governent somewhere made them do it. Then it's just a matter of saying "Well, they made us do it there, so we're gonna do it here too os we don't get sued again." Furthermore, people are NOT used to integrated AV, the new graphics engine (can't think of the name of it because I honestly never cared) or WinFS. These have NEVER been freely distributed with the OS. Different logic. And yes, it's there.
Anyone ever stop to think, maybe they WANTED to get sued in several countries over antitrust issues? Maybe they purposely included many products in the OS which, at the time, they could not have sold, but wanted to make people aware of; and they did this to the extent that governments stepped in and put an end to it. Now there are quite a few people who want all this, once bundled, software and MS can say "We're not allowed to bundle it any more but you can still have it for $9.95USD/mo. Sorry, your country's govenrment says it has to be this way, we can't even offer it for free anymore. Our hands are tied." I mean, right now it's what, just IE and WMP that these countries are making a big fuss about, right? Next will be notepad, paint, what else? And, of course, every single application MS comes up with that should be part of the OS. Ever. The AV should be integrated (or at least bundled) but this is thier excuse to charge for it. I'm sure you'll be able to BUY the graphics engine (most likely subscribe to it for a few bucks a month) and probably the new filesystem (hrmm, think of the possibilities there!) shortly after the Vista launch. The thought of that 'rental' filesystem scares me... "Excuse me, Symantec, it seems your last payment for WinFS did not process. Your WinFS partitions will be inaccessable until you make another payment. Sorry, our payment processing systems are down at the moment and there is no ETA on repairing them." then a month later "Since it has taken so long for us to recieve a payment from you, your ability to subscribe to the WinFS filesystem has been revoked." Well then, every WinFS partitioned disk they have just became useless, no? Think. MS would do this. ESPECIALLY to a competitor.
Obviously, or Wendy's, because BK doesn't sell a Bacon Jr. Cheeseburger, or even a Jr. Cheeseburger. Wendy's does. I should know, I work at one and eat at the other.
This is in DIRECT response to the "MacIntel" boxen being released. Think about it, people will buy a MacIntel, not be able to play the WMV home movies thier brother/son/daughter/sister/firend/whoever put together in Windows Movie Maker and, wow hey look, I can put windows on this thing too? Ok, that's what I'll do and BOOM, you know Windows will f*ck up OS-X86.
Go ahead, fanboys, argue with me.
I, personally, don't give a flying frig who submitted the story. I mean, I'm only a front page reader and have bad karms (BTW, please mod me up, I'm begging, I need the karma *wink wink*) so i'm sure the /. community is gonna take anything I say with a grain of salt but, really, if there's a story posted that catches my interest I gould give a large rodent's behind less who posted it.
/., sometimes we reward people for being jackasses just to get FP on a new story; I've seen it, and so have all of you so I see no need to find an example to back that up -- but I will if one is requested.
/. jokes below.
/. every day and finally get one posted ...
/.ed
Actually, another point I'd like to make right now. Karma; WTF does it take to get good karma here anyway? Of the three posts of mine which have actually been moderated, 2 were modded up (1 as +1, insightful and the other +1 with no reason given), 1 was modded down (-1, troll), leaving me an overall score of +1, higher than the 0 (neutral) I started with, yet I have lower karma. Makes no sense; bad karma should be any score LOWER than 0 if 0 is "neutral". (and I implore you all, after reading this post in its entirity, to take a moment to read through everything I've posted, including this there are only 9 posts to peruse, and if you can, moderate them as yo usee fit -- and I know, that's like asking for more -1, troll mods, I'll face that if that's all I get) But, getting back on topic and to the point I was trying to make, now that I've gotten my quasi-trollish rant out of the way, once your karma is marked as "Bad", even if it's because you were modded "-1, troll" for something that was MEANT to be funny (and your insightful rebuttal was ignored by those with modpoints), well, even your most well thought out, relevant, insightful and informative comments fall through the cracks. This is how it should be, perhaps, for users with scores
That said, yes, it is obvious to me why the post in question was modded "troll". I don't need to be told that, you don't need to point it out, I see why, I get it, I would likely have modded it that way as well, nobody needs to explain it in this case, whatever. I certainly should have put more thought and effort into that post. Then again, how many users with otherwise good karms have done similar things and been MODDED UP FOR IT? Because it was a first post and, well, here at
Ok, now that I've gone slightly off-topic, let me summarize. Who gives a flying frig who posted the story, if it's a good story, it's a good story, I'm sure many readers here are in sales and understand "if you through enough of them at the wall..." so get over yourself and quit posting this and that about the poster and keep your comments relating to the story; that's not so hard to do. And someone please tell me WTF is up with karma. Thank you.
And since I can't think of any other way these things will be mentioned in this thread, I'll take a further risk of being modded down for this post and go ahead and run through some of the more popular
In soviet russia, karma whores you!
1. Submit hundreds of stories to
2. Watch as the only comments made about it relate to you and not the actual story
3.
4. Profit!
Yes, but does the OP run linux? (ok, that one's a stretch, I admit it)
Hope the server this story if posted on doesn't get
Ok, no more, I've gone too far. Whatever. Anyway, if you can't find anything insightful, informative, or at least funny to mod this up based on, go ahead and burn some mod points for the sections of this post which are off-topic; but please, give others a chance to read it and mod it up first.
From TFA:
Mobile TV or music services are others.
Because it's so damned hard to lug my walkman and handheld TV around with me.
Day before Christmas, 1996. My grandfather. Heart attack during his backswing. No, though. It's different, you'd almost HAVE to be addicted to crack to be addicted to golf as well.
Said by some f'k'n' AC:
Aside, and bringing it back on topic, the mortality rate is not what's under discussion here. Addictiveness is. Let me make it clear that there are MANY addictive things with an almost ZERO mortality rate (caffiene, anyone? marijuana, no proven deaths except, maybe, from stupid shit done while high. sex? Ok, maybe sex has a mortality rate, but again, lower than coke. Compulsive liars are addicts as well. The lie itself cannot be fatal. The reaction of the person hearing it can be.) Just because it has little or no mortality rate doesn't mean it's not addictive. If you start it and can't stop it, it's addictive.
From dictionary.com:
addictive
adj.
1. Causing or tending to cause addiction
2. Characterized by or susceptible to addiction
Step into the light and allow us the crown you with this fine dunce cap.
An someone PLEASE mod this and grandparent up (look, I've resorted to begging). PLEASE!
I believe OP was refering to widespread as meaning it's being done the the vast majority of the population, average people, not hardened criminals.
Yes, and NOBODY has EVER died from gaming. Ever.