He asks for a shot of tequila. The bartender replies "Sorry we don't serve strings". So the string leaves.
The next day, the same string walks back into the bar. He asks for a shot of tequila. The bartender replies "Sorry we do not serve strings, please go away."
The following day the string stands outside the bar debating about whether to go in or not. He ties himself up and messes the top of end so that it's loose and uneven.
He goes in and asks for a shot of tequila. The bartender replys "Hey aren't you that string that's been coming in here all the time."
Um, well, actually I did get into a conversation about the idiocy of/. while at BM this year. I only logged in now because I saw the title on my yahoo rss feed.
Also to the AC's point, the smell of BO is caused by bacteria that grows where there is stagnant moisture. The dryness of the playa make it so that the bacteria really doesn't grow because you are constantly sweating and the sweat is constantly evoporating.
It would be for my buying an Xbox. I originally had an N64. When the PS2 came out, I got one so that I could also play all the good games for PS that I had missed. Until I heard the convincing rumours that XBox2 was not going to be backwards compatible, I was thinking of getting one so that I could play this generation's XBox games that I'm missing.
On the surface, that seems right, but then you have to consider that you can get 3rd party memory cards much cheaper than Sony ones. Can you get a 3rd party DVD adapter?
Using RSync to do snapshots is a good way to go. With the snapshot structure on the RAID system, you cannot accidentally wipe out data: it'll remain in the past versions.
I agree with you on the best joke department. It really blows when you go to see a comedy and you have had all the funny parts already played for you. Even worse is when they use creative editing to make it seem like there is a joke in the movie that never actually occurs. Essentially, you get one less joke than the trailer.
One problem I see is that since my ISP is my cable company, where is the motivation for them to provide service to this kind of media. This service directly competes with their Starz package.
This doesn't compete with theaters at all. It's nearest competitor is cable/satellite service. I can subscribe to Starz for $5 on top of my current cable bill (since I already have HBO and Showtime, it's that cheap). Since I have "On-Demand" I could pull any of the movies Starz is showing so it's pretty similar. The only difference I see is that - I don't have to have a heavy cable package to join at the cheap price (my current cable bill is $80) - I can't download to my laptop and watch later. This is very nice for business travellers
The first point will be taken care of when the a la carte programming comes in. The second gives this a niche in delivery.
Personally, after using On-demand, I feel that this kind of delivery (cable channels streaming chosen content over the net) will become more and more popular.
/. is not a blog. Blogs don't have mechanisms for readers to submit articles. The reason/. is the way it is, is because thoousands of people are finding cool news adn submitting it with a writeup.
In LJ terms, this would be close to a community, but even then, in communities the post shows as your own. Here, your words are quoted and the rest is an editorial blurb by the person who decided to put it in.
I agree that someone who just switched from a modem is not going to use as much bandwidth at first, but I don't think that it takes a techie to consume bandwidth. My roommates are non technical, and they use way more bandwidth than I could hope for. Downloading music videos and movie trailers and other things on a daily basis.
I had just a cable modem for a while (no cable at all). Then I received a letter from Comcast telling me I would get a $15 discount if I signed up for the very basic package, which cost $9. The net savings were $6. The basic package only had local channels and 3 cable channels (crappy ones, tho).
I've noticed a lot of linux applications have Cancel/OK instead of OK/Cancel. Mozilla on Windows has OK/Cancel, so I think they are just trying to fit the OS.
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Bravo. Wish I had mod points.
A string walks into a bar.
He asks for a shot of tequila. The bartender replies "Sorry we don't serve strings". So the string leaves.
The next day, the same string walks back into the bar. He asks for a shot of tequila. The bartender replies "Sorry we do not serve strings, please go away."
The following day the string stands outside the bar debating about whether to go in or not. He ties himself up and messes the top of end so that it's loose and uneven.
He goes in and asks for a shot of tequila. The bartender replys "Hey aren't you that string that's been coming in here all the time."
The string replies "No I'm a freyed knot".
Um, well, actually I did get into a conversation about the idiocy of /. while at BM this year. I only logged in now because I saw the title on my yahoo rss feed.
Also to the AC's point, the smell of BO is caused by bacteria that grows where there is stagnant moisture. The dryness of the playa make it so that the bacteria really doesn't grow because you are constantly sweating and the sweat is constantly evoporating.
Huh? I didn't quote a price. What are you talking about?
I received a gmail invite last week. I just sent myself and email with no problems (and it arrived very quickly, less than 5 seconds).
It would be for my buying an Xbox. I originally had an N64. When the PS2 came out, I got one so that I could also play all the good games for PS that I had missed. Until I heard the convincing rumours that XBox2 was not going to be backwards compatible, I was thinking of getting one so that I could play this generation's XBox games that I'm missing.
On the surface, that seems right, but then you have to consider that you can get 3rd party memory cards much cheaper than Sony ones. Can you get a 3rd party DVD adapter?
Think back in 1999, The release of Armageddon was very hyped at this time, Hell, McDonalds had a friggin contest for it.
Why not use a more parallel example of Dreamcast and PS2. Dreamcast had PS2 beat in time, but the PS2 whomped it.
I am not totally sure on this, but has the Xbox managed to outsell the PS2 in any month except for when the Xbox was first released
Yes, just recently when Xbox dropped its price to 149. The PS2 retook the lead following its own price cut.
It's a gamble, but I fidn that most places just screw you. They punish you for going the extra mile, and so eventually you just stop.
an Autorun applet that fucks up the CD-ROM driver.
Typical: linux is left out again. When will this copy protection work on Debian, or even just RedHat!
I never got mine, and I signed up
they both link to one.
Using RSync to do snapshots is a good way to go. With the snapshot structure on the RAID system, you cannot accidentally wipe out data: it'll remain in the past versions.
There is a line between "general policy" is not an "contract".
I'm sure there's a good point in there somewhere, but I honestly cannot tell what you are saying.
I agree with you on the best joke department. It really blows when you go to see a comedy and you have had all the funny parts already played for you. Even worse is when they use creative editing to make it seem like there is a joke in the movie that never actually occurs. Essentially, you get one less joke than the trailer.
One problem I see is that since my ISP is my cable company, where is the motivation for them to provide service to this kind of media. This service directly competes with their Starz package.
This doesn't compete with theaters at all. It's nearest competitor is cable/satellite service. I can subscribe to Starz for $5 on top of my current cable bill (since I already have HBO and Showtime, it's that cheap). Since I have "On-Demand" I could pull any of the movies Starz is showing so it's pretty similar. The only difference I see is that
- I don't have to have a heavy cable package to join at the cheap price (my current cable bill is $80)
- I can't download to my laptop and watch later. This is very nice for business travellers
The first point will be taken care of when the a la carte programming comes in. The second gives this a niche in delivery.
Personally, after using On-demand, I feel that this kind of delivery (cable channels streaming chosen content over the net) will become more and more popular.
/. is not a blog. Blogs don't have mechanisms for readers to submit articles. The reason /. is the way it is, is because thoousands of people are finding cool news adn submitting it with a writeup.
In LJ terms, this would be close to a community, but even then, in communities the post shows as your own. Here, your words are quoted and the rest is an editorial blurb by the person who decided to put it in.
We don't bother because we all run qmail.
I agree that someone who just switched from a modem is not going to use as much bandwidth at first, but I don't think that it takes a techie to consume bandwidth. My roommates are non technical, and they use way more bandwidth than I could hope for. Downloading music videos and movie trailers and other things on a daily basis.
I had just a cable modem for a while (no cable at all). Then I received a letter from Comcast telling me I would get a $15 discount if I signed up for the very basic package, which cost $9. The net savings were $6. The basic package only had local channels and 3 cable channels (crappy ones, tho).
It's socerers that get their abilities from Charisma. Wizards get it from Intelligence.
Geez!
My bad. I had SWT explained to me incorrectly. I was told it gets it's native looks-and-feel from files ala swing.
I've noticed a lot of linux applications have Cancel/OK instead of OK/Cancel. Mozilla on Windows has OK/Cancel, so I think they are just trying to fit the OS.