Now you get to know what Superman feels like when he flies up in space and hears the sounds of the world. Hundreds of millions of people going to the can. Simultaneously.
I wonder if he can differentiate between bathroom grunts and bedroom grunts. That'd be interesting to find out, eh?
I go to a lot of previews (part of the perks of being a University of Toronto student if you know where to look). Whenever a preview is shown to a select group of U of T students, there's a noticeable buzz going around campus (40,000+ strong) about the new movie. For example, I went to the previews for The Last King of Scotland and Waitress. After watching the previews, spreading a few words here and there myself, there's a noticeable amount of interest for those two movies.
Anyway, I don't know why Warner Bros would do this. Fox previews require us to hand in cell phones and they pat us down to check for recording devices. I don't mind letting them have a little touch if they're showing me a good movie for free. It's a win-win.
I was gonna say that I lived in Toronto, where there are also used CD stores everywhere, then feel all cocky about it... then I remembered the Canadian government is charging a levy on blank CDs. Sigh.
Honestly, I would've thought the majority of people who don't get compensated to write open source software sacrifice all their time and energy into its development like me! What would you need a job for? What is this... this... "sustenance", you call it? I need not any of that. Nor any material objects. I have transcended that.
Except for the occasional bottle of Bawlz. Man, that shit is good.
OH HEY! Thanks! I just checked that, and that reminded me of Console Watch. I just checked it, and lo and behold, everything is in stock! I just put an order in for 2 more wiimotes and 3 nunchucks.
Thanks again! I guess those hardware problems are temporarily solved.
I have a console, and it took me three months to get a second wiimote. It's ridiculous. Maybe it's better for people living outside a big city (I'm in Toronto). And I still can't find a nunchuck (online or in stores).
The console is great, the games have thus far been great, so I can't complain. But this shortage of hardware is a real pain in the ass.
Thailand has... let's just say limited impact on the U.S. economy. Brazil is a much larger trading partner than Thailand is. Probably not a wise political move to censure them.
Anyway, it's nice to see human life valued over financial values for a change.
Nice to know you guys fixed the early-stop problem. That was the only thing that turned me off from the service.
Other than that, I don't really mind hearing an ad between the songs I download from We7. Since I buy most of my music on CD anyway, an ad in front of a few select tunes will be more than acceptable.
Good job on the service, and contrary to what many people here say, I think it's a great idea, and a great implementation.
I just downloaded a song and am listening to it as I type (Coolio's Gangsta walk it was one of the first songs on the list).
- There's a 10 second ad clip in the beginning for We7. After that, the music starts. - Half the song later, no second ad, just music. - The music inexplicably stops 10 seconds before the song's done, but there's still no second ad.
I don't know how they make money off of advertising their own service in the beginning of the song. Does anyone have an answer for this? And couldn't anyone just download a song, then import it in an audio editor like Audacity, delete the 10 second ad in the beginning and export it back? A quick scan of the terms doesn't seem to prohibit that.
I mentioned this marginally in another thread, but it never hurts to clarify.
Those glasses are indeed plastic, and not paper. They seem like they're built to withstand a bit of punishment. However, that in itself presents several other problems. As more and more people wear those glasses, they get grimier and dirtier. When I went to the Superman Returns IMAX showing, they had some "3D" scenes that were based on this technology, as far as I can tell by RTFA. The glasses handed to me were full of crap, and I couldn't even wipe it off. Another problem is that for people who wear glasses (read: me), they have to wear the 3D glasses on top of their regular glasses, and it's extremely uncomfortable. Not to mention that you have to keep your finger pressed against the glasses so they don't slip.
As for how it actually works... well, I was sitting off-centre and the 3D effect wasn't that great. I could see two distinct set of outlines for the two projections. The strain on my eyes were ENORMOUS. Watching a 20-second stretch of a 3D scene made my eyes feel worse than spending 3+ hours in front of a monitor. I mean, I GUESS you don't get headaches, but this is just as bad.
In my admittedly limited experience, I still don't think this will fly. It will receive some hype because it's a "new" technology, but eventually, it will fall out of favour. If watching a 20-second clip makes my eyes feel so strained, I can't imagine what it would be like watching the entire movie with those glasses on.
If it's the same technology as they used in Superman Returns during the IMAX showings (and according to the little featurette video in page 2 of TFA, it seems like it is), then yes. I wear glasses myself. When I went in to the IMAX theatre, the workers handed me a pair of plastic glasses that did not look very sanitary. I tried wiping them off, but the lenses were still kinda grimy. So what ended up happening was that I had to watch the movie with two pairs of glasses on, and since I wasn't sitting in the middle, the 3D effect was "off". Not to mention the disgusting crap on the glasses. And that talk about not having a headache? Well... I guess so. But I felt like my eyes were starting to cross involuntarily, and they felt more strained when I watched a 20-second stretch of 3D than when I spend 3+ hours sitting in front of a monitor.
All in all, it was a terrible experience. The "3D" effect was marginally better than the old red/blue method at best, and completely ineffective at worst. My eyes felt like they were about to pop out. I'll never watch another movie with that technology again.
We collect it via airplane and satellite, but also just about any way you can imagine getting a camera above the Earth's surface: hot air balloons, model airplanes - even kites. So THAT'S what the creepy guy in front of the elementary school near my house was doing with the kite and camera. They need some uniforms. I called the cops on that guy. Boy, I bet he had a great time trying to explain himself.
Actually, I use Opera exclusively on my Macbook (other than when I log into the university network, which for some reason stopped supporting Opera but that's another issue altogether). I'm not a huge browser geek, so I don't know the mechanics of what's going on, but Opera just seems to work with OS X. I feel like it's integrated into the OS better than Camino or Firefox. I feel that it's easier to use and more versatile than Safari. Tabbing through forms is separate from tabbing through links (which is so ingenious, I don't know why other browsers don't do it). It's a lot easier to set keyboard shortcuts. Clicking the address bar automatically highlights the address so you can start typing right away, instead of having to do a cmd-a before typing.
Opera on OS X just simply embraces the whole ease-of-use philosophy of OS X. Everything just works, and works well.
The mechanisms in ink cartridges are a lot more complicated nowadays than they used to be. HP, for example, has the print heads built into the ink cartridges. There are also other features built into their ink cartridges that help prolong the life of their printers. You know when you start up your printer and it takes a while to clean the print heads? Almost all inkjets just spray ink out and wipe the print heads to get rid of any solid/dried debris. HP designed their ink cartridges to use up less ink when they clean the print heads (it takes noticably less time to start up an HP printer than another printer).
My concern with third party ink is that, if I wanted to top of my HP cartridges with it, will it mess up the mechanisms in the print cartridge? Will that cause further damage to the printer itself? And as the parent mentioned, the first few pages might be fine, but what about later on? Will the ink clean the print heads well enough to keep them from clogging (incidentally, this has a larger impact on printers with print heads that are built in to the printer rather than the cartridges)?
If you have a $70 printer, I guess you're not too worried about these questions. But personally, I have a relatively good quality printer that I wouldn't want to jeopardize with third party ink (cartridges).
Um... I don't know about the States, but the schools up here in Ontario do address those issues, though only to a very shallow extent. Schools here educate children on bullies, abusive family members, gang involvement, drugs, etc, etc, and encourage children/teens to speak to a guidance counsellor if they are being harassed at home or elsewhere. The schools don't actively intervene unless the child comes forward, but there is SOME effort to reach out to those kids.
I don't see how it is inappropriate to encourage kids to speak up if something is terribly wrong in the family. I would think that it would be worse if the kids don't say/do anything at all.
I really like how you used the term "help make schools safer", because that is a very American idea. Not to say that Canadians don't care if schools are safe or not, but we just have a lot less to worry about what with strict gun control and other such laws. Our focus is not on "making schools safer", per se, but to create and maintain an active and friendly learning environment. A lot of the focus that Canadian schools (both at the elementary and high school levels) have is to eliminate harassment of all forms. There are several distinct schools of thought regarding this, and I think Americans and Canadians (allowing for exceptions) represent two of those schools of thought very well.
The typical American way of thinking is that restricting certain forms of harassment (physical, sexual) is good, but other forms (most verbal and written forms) impede on free speech. This is largely because the American culture favours a radical individualist approach (which in itself is not a bad thing). This view is best represented by the old saying "sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me" or some variation thereof. This is itself not without its merits, and may indeed "develop personality," as they say.
However, the typical Canadian view is different. We are slightly less independently-minded and, whether we realize it or not, very community- and socially-aware (on an unrelated note, this partially explains the "nice Canadian" phenomenon where Canadians will say sorry to someone even if the other person was the one who was "wrong", e.g., many Canadians will say sorry if someone else bumps into them). The Canadian school of thought is one where all harassment has some negative impact. This view is based off several other views.
One is the view that the entire school suffers when a student is being harassed in any way. If authority figures don't do anything when a classmate is being harassed, there is increased tension and decreased trust between students and the faculty. This phenomenon is highly visible if you talk to the friends of harassment victims.
Another view is based off psychological and sociological principles. Adults (and some teenagers) have formed a solid identity of themselves in their own minds. This identity can be used as a defence mechanism of sorts, something to fall back on when they are being harassed (verbally or online). When someone makes a website about me calling me a loner, for example, I can say "no, I'm not" and just ignore it, because of the identity that I have forged for myself. However, a 10 year old does not have the same privilege. A 10 year old is still trying to form an identity for himself. If one person calls him a loner, but many others don't, he is able to shrug it off. However, when someone makes a website about it and the URL is being passed around like hot fudge, the 10 year old begins to question himself, or worse, begins to BELIEVE the things said in the website.
All of these points combine to form an inhospitable learning environment for the victim and increases the overall tension in the school.
So, as a Canadian, I think you're wrong. I don't think that this is a knee-jerk reaction. I think the knee-jerk reaction is to say, "sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me," a saying with no empirical verification. On the other hand, the psychological and sociological principles that are behind the more Canadian view have been shown in at least SOME studies (google it, I only have textbooks and lectures to go on), and carry at least some empirical/scientific significance.
Are you telling me that a distraught 10 year old who sees a website dedicated entirely to insulting and deriding him is going to LOOK FORWARD to going to school? I don't think you fully understand how children think. Not even marginally close.
When such a situation arises, that 10 year old is going to feel like the entire world (as school is pretty much his entire world at this point in his life) is against him. It's not just a manageable feeling of embarassment or inadequacy. That 10 year old is going to believe that he is worthy of those statements, that those statements against him are fair, and he will start to alter his behaviour to match those statements. You must understand that 10 year olds are not psychologically mature enough to maintain whatever persona they have developed over the course of their lives when such a critical situation arises. This is simple Psychology 100 (or even Sociology 100) material.
YOU can defend against it, because YOU know who YOU are. Most adults (and even a good amount of teens) are able to withstand such harassment because we have had sufficient time and experience to develop our persona and fully embrace it. At 10, a child is still ACQUIRING his persona, and the most important source of this acquisition is not within himself, it is from sources that are external. And of those external sources, peers are one of the most important (along with parents and teachers). Kids literally become who others think they are.
Now, as with everything, there are exceptions. But when you are deciding whether to enact a law like this, you have to keep in mind that even the exceptions don't directly benefit if you don't enact such a law.
What I am saying, after all of that, is that an act like this is in fact essential to maintain an environment conducive to learning. The are too many potential consequences that will arise from such situations for something like this to be ignored.
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This is literally taking gold digging to a whole other level.
Adium has a cute duck logo. If anything, Popfly's logo, being a duck, should be compared to Adium's.
... yeah, all of that resemblence thing is just flaimbait.
But uh
Uhh
Now you get to know what Superman feels like when he flies up in space and hears the sounds of the world. Hundreds of millions of people going to the can. Simultaneously.
I wonder if he can differentiate between bathroom grunts and bedroom grunts. That'd be interesting to find out, eh?
Members of this group also offered to put him in touch with traders of real child pornography.
It is true, what you say.
I go to a lot of previews (part of the perks of being a University of Toronto student if you know where to look). Whenever a preview is shown to a select group of U of T students, there's a noticeable buzz going around campus (40,000+ strong) about the new movie. For example, I went to the previews for The Last King of Scotland and Waitress. After watching the previews, spreading a few words here and there myself, there's a noticeable amount of interest for those two movies.
Anyway, I don't know why Warner Bros would do this. Fox previews require us to hand in cell phones and they pat us down to check for recording devices. I don't mind letting them have a little touch if they're showing me a good movie for free. It's a win-win.
I was gonna say that I lived in Toronto, where there are also used CD stores everywhere, then feel all cocky about it ... then I remembered the Canadian government is charging a levy on blank CDs. Sigh.
yeah ... My friend played WoW on an old Dell with a GeForce 2. Let's just say that's not exactly a ferrari of a machine.
Honestly, I would've thought the majority of people who don't get compensated to write open source software sacrifice all their time and energy into its development like me! What would you need a job for? What is this ... this ... "sustenance", you call it? I need not any of that. Nor any material objects. I have transcended that.
Except for the occasional bottle of Bawlz. Man, that shit is good.
OH HEY! Thanks! I just checked that, and that reminded me of Console Watch. I just checked it, and lo and behold, everything is in stock! I just put an order in for 2 more wiimotes and 3 nunchucks.
Thanks again! I guess those hardware problems are temporarily solved.
I have a console, and it took me three months to get a second wiimote. It's ridiculous. Maybe it's better for people living outside a big city (I'm in Toronto). And I still can't find a nunchuck (online or in stores).
The console is great, the games have thus far been great, so I can't complain. But this shortage of hardware is a real pain in the ass.
Thailand has ... let's just say limited impact on the U.S. economy. Brazil is a much larger trading partner than Thailand is. Probably not a wise political move to censure them.
Anyway, it's nice to see human life valued over financial values for a change.
I just searched on DC++ for "Spider-Man 3" and the results gave me "Nothing for you to see here. Please move along."
/. and click the link to this article, and I got a page saying "Nothing for you to see here. Please move along."
Then I come to
They're out to get me. *huddles in a corner, grasping at his tinfoil hat*
"Hey! What the hell are you doing to my character>!?!?!"
"You said you'd f*ck me! It's in the chat logs! It's consensual! You have nothing on me!! HAHAHAHAHAHA"
Nice to know you guys fixed the early-stop problem. That was the only thing that turned me off from the service.
Other than that, I don't really mind hearing an ad between the songs I download from We7. Since I buy most of my music on CD anyway, an ad in front of a few select tunes will be more than acceptable.
Good job on the service, and contrary to what many people here say, I think it's a great idea, and a great implementation.
Ah, I hadn't considered that they didn't get advertisers on board yet.
And the music is in fact encoded in MP3.
I just downloaded a song and am listening to it as I type (Coolio's Gangsta walk it was one of the first songs on the list).
- There's a 10 second ad clip in the beginning for We7. After that, the music starts.
- Half the song later, no second ad, just music.
- The music inexplicably stops 10 seconds before the song's done, but there's still no second ad.
I don't know how they make money off of advertising their own service in the beginning of the song. Does anyone have an answer for this? And couldn't anyone just download a song, then import it in an audio editor like Audacity, delete the 10 second ad in the beginning and export it back? A quick scan of the terms doesn't seem to prohibit that.
I mentioned this marginally in another thread, but it never hurts to clarify.
... well, I was sitting off-centre and the 3D effect wasn't that great. I could see two distinct set of outlines for the two projections. The strain on my eyes were ENORMOUS. Watching a 20-second stretch of a 3D scene made my eyes feel worse than spending 3+ hours in front of a monitor. I mean, I GUESS you don't get headaches, but this is just as bad.
Those glasses are indeed plastic, and not paper. They seem like they're built to withstand a bit of punishment. However, that in itself presents several other problems. As more and more people wear those glasses, they get grimier and dirtier. When I went to the Superman Returns IMAX showing, they had some "3D" scenes that were based on this technology, as far as I can tell by RTFA. The glasses handed to me were full of crap, and I couldn't even wipe it off. Another problem is that for people who wear glasses (read: me), they have to wear the 3D glasses on top of their regular glasses, and it's extremely uncomfortable. Not to mention that you have to keep your finger pressed against the glasses so they don't slip.
As for how it actually works
In my admittedly limited experience, I still don't think this will fly. It will receive some hype because it's a "new" technology, but eventually, it will fall out of favour. If watching a 20-second clip makes my eyes feel so strained, I can't imagine what it would be like watching the entire movie with those glasses on.
If it's the same technology as they used in Superman Returns during the IMAX showings (and according to the little featurette video in page 2 of TFA, it seems like it is), then yes. I wear glasses myself. When I went in to the IMAX theatre, the workers handed me a pair of plastic glasses that did not look very sanitary. I tried wiping them off, but the lenses were still kinda grimy. So what ended up happening was that I had to watch the movie with two pairs of glasses on, and since I wasn't sitting in the middle, the 3D effect was "off". Not to mention the disgusting crap on the glasses. And that talk about not having a headache? Well ... I guess so. But I felt like my eyes were starting to cross involuntarily, and they felt more strained when I watched a 20-second stretch of 3D than when I spend 3+ hours sitting in front of a monitor.
All in all, it was a terrible experience. The "3D" effect was marginally better than the old red/blue method at best, and completely ineffective at worst. My eyes felt like they were about to pop out. I'll never watch another movie with that technology again.
My bad.
Actually, I use Opera exclusively on my Macbook (other than when I log into the university network, which for some reason stopped supporting Opera but that's another issue altogether). I'm not a huge browser geek, so I don't know the mechanics of what's going on, but Opera just seems to work with OS X. I feel like it's integrated into the OS better than Camino or Firefox. I feel that it's easier to use and more versatile than Safari. Tabbing through forms is separate from tabbing through links (which is so ingenious, I don't know why other browsers don't do it). It's a lot easier to set keyboard shortcuts. Clicking the address bar automatically highlights the address so you can start typing right away, instead of having to do a cmd-a before typing.
Opera on OS X just simply embraces the whole ease-of-use philosophy of OS X. Everything just works, and works well.
Parent is on to something.
The mechanisms in ink cartridges are a lot more complicated nowadays than they used to be. HP, for example, has the print heads built into the ink cartridges. There are also other features built into their ink cartridges that help prolong the life of their printers. You know when you start up your printer and it takes a while to clean the print heads? Almost all inkjets just spray ink out and wipe the print heads to get rid of any solid/dried debris. HP designed their ink cartridges to use up less ink when they clean the print heads (it takes noticably less time to start up an HP printer than another printer).
My concern with third party ink is that, if I wanted to top of my HP cartridges with it, will it mess up the mechanisms in the print cartridge? Will that cause further damage to the printer itself? And as the parent mentioned, the first few pages might be fine, but what about later on? Will the ink clean the print heads well enough to keep them from clogging (incidentally, this has a larger impact on printers with print heads that are built in to the printer rather than the cartridges)?
If you have a $70 printer, I guess you're not too worried about these questions. But personally, I have a relatively good quality printer that I wouldn't want to jeopardize with third party ink (cartridges).
Um ... I don't know about the States, but the schools up here in Ontario do address those issues, though only to a very shallow extent. Schools here educate children on bullies, abusive family members, gang involvement, drugs, etc, etc, and encourage children/teens to speak to a guidance counsellor if they are being harassed at home or elsewhere. The schools don't actively intervene unless the child comes forward, but there is SOME effort to reach out to those kids.
I don't see how it is inappropriate to encourage kids to speak up if something is terribly wrong in the family. I would think that it would be worse if the kids don't say/do anything at all.
I really like how you used the term "help make schools safer", because that is a very American idea. Not to say that Canadians don't care if schools are safe or not, but we just have a lot less to worry about what with strict gun control and other such laws. Our focus is not on "making schools safer", per se, but to create and maintain an active and friendly learning environment. A lot of the focus that Canadian schools (both at the elementary and high school levels) have is to eliminate harassment of all forms. There are several distinct schools of thought regarding this, and I think Americans and Canadians (allowing for exceptions) represent two of those schools of thought very well.
The typical American way of thinking is that restricting certain forms of harassment (physical, sexual) is good, but other forms (most verbal and written forms) impede on free speech. This is largely because the American culture favours a radical individualist approach (which in itself is not a bad thing). This view is best represented by the old saying "sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me" or some variation thereof. This is itself not without its merits, and may indeed "develop personality," as they say.
However, the typical Canadian view is different. We are slightly less independently-minded and, whether we realize it or not, very community- and socially-aware (on an unrelated note, this partially explains the "nice Canadian" phenomenon where Canadians will say sorry to someone even if the other person was the one who was "wrong", e.g., many Canadians will say sorry if someone else bumps into them). The Canadian school of thought is one where all harassment has some negative impact. This view is based off several other views.
One is the view that the entire school suffers when a student is being harassed in any way. If authority figures don't do anything when a classmate is being harassed, there is increased tension and decreased trust between students and the faculty. This phenomenon is highly visible if you talk to the friends of harassment victims.
Another view is based off psychological and sociological principles. Adults (and some teenagers) have formed a solid identity of themselves in their own minds. This identity can be used as a defence mechanism of sorts, something to fall back on when they are being harassed (verbally or online). When someone makes a website about me calling me a loner, for example, I can say "no, I'm not" and just ignore it, because of the identity that I have forged for myself. However, a 10 year old does not have the same privilege. A 10 year old is still trying to form an identity for himself. If one person calls him a loner, but many others don't, he is able to shrug it off. However, when someone makes a website about it and the URL is being passed around like hot fudge, the 10 year old begins to question himself, or worse, begins to BELIEVE the things said in the website.
All of these points combine to form an inhospitable learning environment for the victim and increases the overall tension in the school.
So, as a Canadian, I think you're wrong. I don't think that this is a knee-jerk reaction. I think the knee-jerk reaction is to say, "sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me," a saying with no empirical verification. On the other hand, the psychological and sociological principles that are behind the more Canadian view have been shown in at least SOME studies (google it, I only have textbooks and lectures to go on), and carry at least some empirical/scientific significance.
Are you telling me that a distraught 10 year old who sees a website dedicated entirely to insulting and deriding him is going to LOOK FORWARD to going to school? I don't think you fully understand how children think. Not even marginally close.
When such a situation arises, that 10 year old is going to feel like the entire world (as school is pretty much his entire world at this point in his life) is against him. It's not just a manageable feeling of embarassment or inadequacy. That 10 year old is going to believe that he is worthy of those statements, that those statements against him are fair, and he will start to alter his behaviour to match those statements. You must understand that 10 year olds are not psychologically mature enough to maintain whatever persona they have developed over the course of their lives when such a critical situation arises. This is simple Psychology 100 (or even Sociology 100) material.
YOU can defend against it, because YOU know who YOU are. Most adults (and even a good amount of teens) are able to withstand such harassment because we have had sufficient time and experience to develop our persona and fully embrace it. At 10, a child is still ACQUIRING his persona, and the most important source of this acquisition is not within himself, it is from sources that are external. And of those external sources, peers are one of the most important (along with parents and teachers). Kids literally become who others think they are.
Now, as with everything, there are exceptions. But when you are deciding whether to enact a law like this, you have to keep in mind that even the exceptions don't directly benefit if you don't enact such a law.
What I am saying, after all of that, is that an act like this is in fact essential to maintain an environment conducive to learning. The are too many potential consequences that will arise from such situations for something like this to be ignored.