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you're looking at this the wrong wayImagine all the cool things you can know about your neighbors now - and how easy it is to spilunk their email.
I've been thinking of joining the @home service just so I can crack into my neighbors' browser histories and caches. At the next homeowners association meeting, I won't say a word. I swear.
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First Documentary to Be Edited Open-SourceWhen the film is released, you can buy a package with the source material and an EDL (edit decision list). You are expected to conform the program on your own.
Binaries are for wussies- or so I've read.
You will be able to make changes to the program and distribute it so long as you include the source material and EDL.
If anyone has seen Dennis Hopper's The Last Movie, rumor has it that it was cut in a similar manner.
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Libraries and media licensesThe American Library Association should announce soon that they will be striking up a deal with Viacom/Time-Warner/AOL/Virgin/UniCorp to allow library patrons to borrow their copyrighted material.
Going to the library and going to Blockbuster may soon become a similar experience- as patrons use a smart card to track their borrowing purchases which are instantly charged to their credit card.
Checking out that Kafka's gonna kost ya
There was something in there about libraries leveling access to people of all economic strata- but no one can remember now.
An RIAA spokesman said that the main issue was memory. Memory itself is a kind of copying, so it is in a sense a violation of "fair use" standards.
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Disposable chips & cards?No wonder my 3d accellerator stops working after a week.
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How ironic......that Apple may port OSX to the Pentium platform, but pre-G3 Powermac users have to buy a whole new system.
I thought that buying a Mac meant that I was buying hardware superior to the Wintel crowd. Now it seams that any hack with a Pavilion can run the Apple OS that I cannot.
I originally bought the Umax J700 because I read somewhere that Rhapsody would run on it. Oops.
Well, people keep telling me that this will be a good year for Apple. Who knows?
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How ironic......that Apple may port OSX to the Pentium platform, but pre-G3 Powermac users have to buy a whole new system.
I thought that buying a Mac meant that I was buying hardware superior to the Wintel crowd. Now it seams that any hack with a Pavilion can run the Apple OS that I cannot.
I originally bought the Umax J700 because I read somewhere that Rhapsody would run on it. Oops.
Well, people keep telling me that this will be a good year for Apple. Who knows?
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How ironic......that Apple may port OSX to the Pentium platform, but pre-G3 Powermac users have to buy a whole new system.
I thought that buying a Mac meant that I was buying hardware superior to the Wintel crowd. Now it seams that any hack with a Pavilion can run the Apple OS that I cannot.
I originally bought the Umax J700 because I read somewhere that Rhapsody would run on it. Oops.
Well, people keep telling me that this will be a good year for Apple. Who knows?
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Down at the COPA, COPA-cabanna!If it weren't for pr0n, none of us would have jobs.
Face. it.
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Is Mozilla XP?'Cause the build I played with extremely sucked.
We like to make fun of marketing people because no matter how much jargon they learn, they don't know what we do. But for anyone who's read The Lord of the Flies, you know that putting people in leadership roles simply because they think they deserve them is a huge mistake. I've seen many media companies die a slow and agonizing death because the charismatic creatives who ran the place did not know their arse from a business-oriented hole in the ground.
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Sega = Drunk Uncle"I'm sorry. I'll never do it again."
How many times do you have to hear that before you disbelieve anything they say?
The good news is that they plan to support this box for a whole six months before they stop marketing it.
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And if TV has taught me anything......it is that these molecular components determine that a species capable of speech will sound vaguely human and speak broken English- or in the case of Ricardo Montelban, broken Spanish.
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It's spelled '.net' but pronounced 'java'No wonder they struck that deal last week...
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ridiculopathy.com tv spotdid anyone see it?
I was told it was going to run in the middle ad break in the 2nd quarter. I'm worried that our check didn't clear in time...
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But will it be compatible with all 15 DC games?My understanding is that developers stopped making games only weeks after the box was released to the public. That may or may not be true- but it certainly smells of the Apple IIc of game consoles.
A vampire is careful not to suck the blood of a dead person. Microsoft should be, too.
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The social outcast child with a toy fixation...See the social outcast child with a toy fixation TRANSFORM into a socially inept adult with a toy fixation!
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The social outcast child with a toy fixation...See the social outcast child with a toy fixation TRANSFORM into a socially inept adult with a toy fixation!
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"Freedom Fighters" Vs. "Cheap Bastards"Hacking the Netpliance boxes was fun, but you had to actually spend money one one. But free TV? Well, everyone knows what that is.
I wonder why the media never gives hackers an even break? All we want is something for nothing.
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This is what happened on MIR
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Oh, Mah Gawd!Hey, everybody! The Microsoft Knowledgebase is down! I think their DNS went ker-fluwey.
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Superbowl FX and the Ridiculopathy.com commercialThe Ridiculopathy.com superbowl spot will air during the second quarter.
We had to sign on for the air-time last year at this time, and since everyone else was doing it, we didn't want to be left behind. I've had "rais a million dollars" on my Palm's To-Do list for most of a year- and you know how that goes.
Due to cash constraints, it will be only six seconds long.
It took us months to concept and complete the spot. The cost to produce it was nearly as expensive as the price of the air-time.
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Superbowl FX and the Ridiculopathy.com commercialThe Ridiculopathy.com superbowl spot will air during the second quarter.
We had to sign on for the air-time last year at this time, and since everyone else was doing it, we didn't want to be left behind. I've had "rais a million dollars" on my Palm's To-Do list for most of a year- and you know how that goes.
Due to cash constraints, it will be only six seconds long.
It took us months to concept and complete the spot. The cost to produce it was nearly as expensive as the price of the air-time.
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"It's easy to love a dead man"The Dreamcast, although I've never actually played it, must be much better than the PS2 or X-Box (two consoles I have also never played).
The Dreamcast, with its garrish hole in the controller (to be filled with more soon-to-be-obsolete Sega merchandise) was the real next generation of gaming.
Their licensing structure (which I've never actually read or even looked up) was good for game developers, and therefor gamers.
It is a sad day when the console which so obviously bests all others dies in the marketplace because people buy what they know. I guess I'll just circulate more Port-To-Mac game petitions...
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480p is standard def video deinterlaced...for sports or high-camera-movement applications, it looks like cheesy early 80's mtv.
I heard someone the other say say that he was shooting his indie "film" on 480p. MPeg-I movies are also de-interlaced, but usually 320x240 and blown up.
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480p is standard def video deinterlaced...for sports or high-camera-movement applications, it looks like cheesy early 80's mtv.
I heard someone the other say say that he was shooting his indie "film" on 480p. MPeg-I movies are also de-interlaced, but usually 320x240 and blown up.
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Yeah, make one monopoly compete another monopolyPhone for cable, cable for phone. I can't tell which is worse...
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Great, now we can detect ET radial keratomyI seriously doubt that a extraterrstrial civilization would have a full optical plan. Full dental, perhaps- but never full optical.
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And those blue ink tags at The Gap- they suck, tooThey get ink all over my new stuff!
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I'm so glad I'm not a wintel user...I'd hate to use an OS so tied to legacy code or to users so used to an antiquated GUI that it will never really advance.
Wait a minute. I am.
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15 Years old - call it PReViOUSAn old Elvis fan said, "It's easy to love a dead man." She was right. It's also easy to overlook the failings of a good (but by no means perfect) OS just because it fell between the marketing cracks (e.g. Amiga).
$NeXT = $Steve_Jobs * $dead_OS
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Yeah-well mine was serialized by the Baltimore SunWell, if we're just pimping our side projects now...
It actually was serialized by the sun (on Sunspot, their web site). It's called The Narcoleptic Dialectic. People who liked Douglas Adams books said they liked it just before they attempted to strangle me.
Today on The Rid: Congressional Friar's Roast of John Ashcroft "A Hoot"
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My Bipedal locomotion patentI see people violating my patent every day and it drives me nuts! I don't think people understand how important patents are to encouraging and rewarding innovation in this country.
We're planning to take all able-bodied persons in America to court in a precedent-setting reverse class-action suit.
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It's Open-Source, it can't be evil...can it?
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Will they add an annoying CGI character?I sure hope so.
Anyone read Return to RAMA and like it? I did and didn't.
Hi ho.
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No threat for the 90% of existing non-OSX MacsI can't fear what I can't run. For PPC 603/604 users, LinuxPPC is their only shot at stability. I refuse to buy a new system every few years because I was enough of a sucker to get a fragile proprietary box in the first place.
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Ah, France. We surrender.Yes, it is good to pull back from the draconian precipice.
But I've often wondered about this: if we have super-cool super-hero Captain America, does Lithuania have Captain Lithuania? And more importantly, does France have Captain France? Would Captain France wear some black & white striped shirt & an aerodynamic beret? Would his main weapon be a day old baguette?
There's a comic book for you. There's danger afoot, Captain France flies in to save the day by staging a preemptive surrender- waving the flag of France (except the red and blue stripes have been changed to white).
"I give up in the name of France!"
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T-Shirts + PayPal = New Economic ModelTo keep the lights on, we've had to resort to alternative revenue streams.
Some sites sell their hit logs to slimy info-marketers. Personally, I'm partial to selling souls. What are motion pictures other than long-form infomercials for movie-related merchandise?
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T-Shirts + PayPal = New Economic ModelTo keep the lights on, we've had to resort to alternative revenue streams.
Some sites sell their hit logs to slimy info-marketers. Personally, I'm partial to selling souls. What are motion pictures other than long-form infomercials for movie-related merchandise?
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T-Shirts + PayPal = New Economic ModelTo keep the lights on, we've had to resort to alternative revenue streams.
Some sites sell their hit logs to slimy info-marketers. Personally, I'm partial to selling souls. What are motion pictures other than long-form infomercials for movie-related merchandise?
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T-Shirts + PayPal = New Economic ModelTo keep the lights on, we've had to resort to alternative revenue streams.
Some sites sell their hit logs to slimy info-marketers. Personally, I'm partial to selling souls. What are motion pictures other than long-form infomercials for movie-related merchandise?
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Gates takes to wearing a monocle, top hatConfident that nothing now can touch him, the CEO of the world's most feared company is now expected to openly act the part of monopolist.
He got a head start toward Carnagyism last year when he donated billions of his lucre to erect educational buildings with his name on them. To complete the picture, he allegedly plans to take to wearing heavy fur coats and beaver hats, bathe for hours in a tub filled with hundred dollar bills, and hire the Pinkertons to keep his employees from unionizing.
After the pall of the antitrust suit has worn off, look for Gates and company to begin acquiring properties with the same vigor as before. Next step: Baltic Avenue.
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Another snag: Developing Jabbering CGI Character
The filmmakers wanted to take their scifi franchise to the next level, the G. Lucas level. After the initial success, they want to toss out any story or character development and replace it with something that looks a lot like Barney on Steroids. In other words, Trinity comes back to life as a CGI character. Dump all the un-fun references to a human race enslaved by robots and computers. More songs.
Read how a CGI character will be used in Ben Burns' Jazz Part 4
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Another snag: Developing Jabbering CGI Character
The filmmakers wanted to take their scifi franchise to the next level, the G. Lucas level. After the initial success, they want to toss out any story or character development and replace it with something that looks a lot like Barney on Steroids. In other words, Trinity comes back to life as a CGI character. Dump all the un-fun references to a human race enslaved by robots and computers. More songs.
Read how a CGI character will be used in Ben Burns' Jazz Part 4
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Tree meat
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Don't worry, VA- I get sued every dayLawsuits are good for the technology industry in the same way that hackers are good for security.
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Thiss mean I can take my supah-l337 G4 overseas?Rock on!
I saw the ads. The TV told me that the G4 pulled so many flops it was a "supah-computer" and there were export restrictions and whatnot on it.
That's how I knew I had to buy that supah-l337 bad boy. The TV would never lie to me. Jeff Goldbloom has no motivation to mislead me.
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Look for new nano-tex products soon...The Everquest Pants contain a special lining for those Everquest junkies too lazy or engrossed to releive themselves properly.
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If you're sweating through your pants like that...you don't need a new pair of pants, you need a less stressful job.
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IT = "Institutional Terror"
For most small companies, people live in fear of what will happen when the "geek" jumps ship. All those uncompensated weekend hours re-writing the vb code for the database... what now? www.ridiculopathy.com
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Microsoft revenue-enhancing business practicesWhen we say "Anti-Piracy," we really mean "Anti-User."
Most M$ sales, I understand, are from OEM pre-installs. As PC sales decline, they've had to get creative to keep profitability up.
For example, if your HP pavilion comes pre-installed with Works2000, Outlook aparently needs it to forward simple no-attachment messages. To uninstall it (if you no longer have the CD that came with the unit), you need to actually go out and buy the ap you never wanted in the first place.
Is this a common practice- to require the CD to uninstall?
Cut to a scene from The Matrix 2, where we find out who's feeding on the flesh of the living...
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Recent Microsoft CoverageHere are some recent stories regarding the Microsoft situation. You may find them helpful.
- Microsoft Softens Its Image, Enters Jams & Jellies Market
- WindowsME To Innovate Virus Support
- Microsoft Allegedly Infringes on Zero Click Patent
- Microsoft Cracked!
- Microsoft Acquires Copyright to US Code, Issues TOS to Dept. of Justice
News clippings provided by: Ridiculopathy.com